Ashton Eaton Quotes

Even if you see a great performance, it's not always great getting there. There are injuries... Intrinsically or unconsciously, people understand that - people see those performances, and they know there are stories behind that.

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• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Long
  • Nature

• China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Respect

• I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Want
  • Learned
  • Lesson

• Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Dark
  • Name
  • Immigration

• 'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Me
  • Movies
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• The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Life
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• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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  • Age
  • Wine

• We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Human
  • Look
  • Biology

• I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Trying
  • Team
  • Chance

• I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

  

  Val Guest
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• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
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• The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Character
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• I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Hope
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

  

  Iris Chang
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• We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.

  

  Rachel Joyce
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• If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.

  

  Harland Williams
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  • Relationship
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• People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.

  

  Cameron Crowe
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• I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
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• The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.

  

  Bill McKibben
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• It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I do not want to know you' was, to me, hardly different from suggesting 'because you are gay, I dislike you

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Kind
  • Gay
  • Prejudice

• It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Me
  • Easy

• Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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• At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.'

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
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  • Parents
  • Sometimes

• Even if you see a great performance, it's not always great getting there. There are injuries... Intrinsically or unconsciously, people understand that - people see those performances, and they know there are stories behind that.

  

  Ashton Eaton
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