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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I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.
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My brother applied for work, but was told by the company that it had more employees than it needed. My brother said, "Don't worry. The little bit of work I do won't be noticed !!!"
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I promoted myself on Twitter and Facebook as hard as possible, nonstop. People started realizing that if they commented on my videos, I'd reply to their comment, so I started getting a lot more views and comments.
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One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It's a wonderful feeling. That's why I try to avoid any knowledge that would spoil the sensation. Sometimes it isn't easy. People keep hurling knowledge at me, and I can't always duck.
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I've always been a sucker for a dog called an Alaskan Malamute. It's like a little husky... my dad had one when he was younger.
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When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.
