Ashton Eaton Quotes

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Ashton Eaton

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• At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • School
  • Me
  • Girls

• The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Place
  • Rights
  • View

• I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.

  

  Tahyna Tozzi
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Game
  • Day
  • Football

• I'm fascinated by historical fashion, and I like to live in the past slightly. If I could walk around all day dressed in a crinoline, I would.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Live
  • Past
  • Day

• I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Water
  • Habit
  • Afraid

• Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Business
  • War

• Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation; but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Real
  • Curiosity

• From my experience dealing with Sichuan after the 2008 earthquake I started to understand very clearly the character of local government. They will do anything. You will never really wrongly accuse them of anything because they do everything.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Character
  • Experience

• When we look at each other, we're the same family. You don't have to see black or Latino - we're one family. That's America.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Family
  • America
  • Black

• I've long thought that Marco Rubio would make a strong G.O.P. candidate for president. While he was brought into office by surfing on the Tea Party wave, he has proven himself not to be wedded to the frequent lunacy of those folks.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Party

• Before I really became interested in fashion, all I would look at in a fashion magazine was the ads. It only dawned on me recently that just looking at the ads really doesn't teach you everything you need to know about the fashion world.

  

  Mark Indelicato
  • World
  • Fashion

• Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.

  

  Angie Everhart

• I was one of those kids who always wrote.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Kids

• My central thesis is that combining increased temporal and spatial resolution in MRI techniques with increasingly powerful data correlation techniques will allow the derivation of interpreted meanings from neural signals. I observed, further, that the techniques that exist already allow some correlations.

  

  Mary Lou Jepsen
  • Powerful

• I've got to write about my character every day. I've got to find out where he lives, what bus he catches to school, and stuff like that. You've got to know every little thing about him so when you do it, it feels natural.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee
  • School
  • Character

• We must return conservatives to the majority in the U.S. Senate.

  

  Jeb Bush

• 'Dreamgirls' is special to me.

  

  Angela Robinson

• Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• I want to put some effort into a bunch of different types of videos. I don't think I'm gonna do 'Man On The Street' messing with people, I don't think I'm gonna do over-the-top wacky comedy.

  

  Andy Milonakis
  • People
  • Different
  • Comedy

• With the proper diet, no doctor is necessary.

  

  Gabriel Cousens

• I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It's not really that I am a control freak; it's just that is what I love.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• The truth is, truly passionate media creators don't get into the media business to make huge gains from spectacular unicorn exits. When it happens, we certainly all cheer (and perhaps secretly hope it happens to us). But the fact is, we make media because we don't know what else to do with ourselves. It's how we're wired, so to speak.

  

  John Battelle
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Hope

• When I'm on the track, I like hearing the fans cheer me on.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Cheer