Ashton Eaton Quotes
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Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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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 punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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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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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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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 always want our leaders to be great leaders.
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I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
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If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it's healthy for a country to have millions and millions of undocumented noncitizens living in the shadows. But it'll also be a sign that the Republican Party has gotten tired of letting the Tea Party push it around.
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Maybe someday there will be a song I write that I never let see the light of day because I don't want it to be uncontainable and have to play it again. And I have written songs like that that are just for me. It's like writing a letter to someone you're angry at but never sending it and just putting it in a drawer.
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When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.
