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

  

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

  

  Fede Alvarez
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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
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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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• Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

  

  Cam Newton
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  • Sleep

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

  

  Sam Kean
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• 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
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• 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
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• I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• 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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• 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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• Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
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  • Forever

• Owen says my book will be forgotten in 10 years; perhaps so, but, with such a list of prestigious scientific supporters, I feel convinced that the subject will not.

  

  Charles Darwin
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• I've long been a fan of Chiwetel Ejiofor. I think he's a great actor. He's my kind of guy. He does what I aspire to do.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
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• Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer.

  

  James Gleick
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• 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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