Ashton Eaton Quotes
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In the wake of the United Kingdom's vote to 'Brexit' the E.U., we Europeans will indeed have to rethink how our Union works; but we know very well what we need to work for. We know what our principles, interests, and priorities are.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.
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For favorite games, I have sentimental feelings toward the Nintendo 64. I don't know why, but that period just resonates with me - 'Goldeneye' and 'Ocarina of Time' and 'Rogue Squadron.'
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
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I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.
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First and foremost, praying about things and having the good Lord as a part of my life is a huge grounding thing for me.
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I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
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Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
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For me, I want 10 perfect events.
