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.

Ashton Eaton

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People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

John Cale

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I was pretty sure I lacked the wisdom to be the commencement speaker, but after stewing over the idea for about 48 hours, I decided that if the senior class at the University of Wisconsin wants me to come speak, I'll do whatever they ask me. I love that school.

Anders Holm

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People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There's plenty of air around you.

Robert Plant

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After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.

Matthew Perry

LaughFirstStageGotAfterHooked

I try to use the attention that I get to help and to serve, and that's really what I'd see as my work - to serve my community, serve the planet, serve my family. And I think a celebrity is someone who draws the attention on themselves, and then it kind of stops there.

Michael Franti

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Most people call me Mercy. I like it.

Mercedes McCambridge

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Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts act themselves senseless in 'August: Osage County,' and by the time they're finished, they've acted their movie senseless, too.

Steve Erickson

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I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

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Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.

Steve Wynn

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It was either therapy or die.

Mickey Rourke

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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

Jules Renard

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I'm a very spiritual person, and proud of my Mormon roots.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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