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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Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
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Can you ever imagine yourself in a situation like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie or Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, where the world feels like they have a stake in your private life? I would never want it.
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The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.
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My 20s were a blizzard of rejection slips.
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I've been to Manchester enough to know it's a real place. It's not Factory Records and the Smiths bicycling around. I get it. It's a modern city.
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When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.
