Ashton Eaton Quotes

There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.

Ashton Eaton

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Gossiping and squawking for no reason is really pointless.

Jenna Morasca

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I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

John Sherman Cooper

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I never cake someone who doesn't want to be caked - at least, I try not to. Sometimes I miss my target. I'm pretty much going through the crowd making sure I find someone who wants to get caked. If you don't want to get caked, shake your head or tell me you don't want to get caked. It's that easy.

Steve Aoki

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I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses.

Stella Young

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If a kid goes and buys a CD at Best Buy, we have no idea who the person is, how many times they listen to it, or anything like that.

Troy Carter

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The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures.

Rosemary Mahoney

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Have you ever held a snake? They are so strong. You can see why there are so many myths about them: they are unlike any other creature. It's extraordinary how that little brain can keep everything moving in different directions.

Michelle Paver

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I'm a bit of a traditionalist, but I kind of mangle things as I perform in a contemporary way.

Jason Moran

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I'm pretty low-key. I travel fairly light, especially on the tour.

Christine McVie

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'New Moon' was such a serious, depressing movie that people felt we had lost a little humor of the books.

Wyck Godfrey

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My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.

William Kidd

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