Ashton Eaton Quotes
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line. And then I just start adding layers of synthesizers.
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Straight people are everywhere!
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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I never lie to my fans.
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We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.
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A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.
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Fun opens the doors to creativity, which then leads to inspiration, which then births passion, which all together equals both happiness and success!
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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It wasn't like the other songs. There was no story, no conversation. This was just the feeling, without words or pictures, and it had nothing to do with Luther or his clean, stinging guitar. It was the sound of being outside, of being alien. It was the pulse that ran under everything and never let you forget that you were strange, that the world hurt just to touch.
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I was raised that you don't use something nice until there's someplace to go.
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The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.
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Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.
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First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.
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When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.
