Ashton Eaton Quotes

The first pet I remember was a cat called Baby. She would sleep with me, and I could call her from anywhere, and she would come running.

Ashton Eaton

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When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

Jocko Willink

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I absolutely love low-key restaurants.

Andy Cohen

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It's the same assignment on every part: you want to create a real world, and the tone of it is a little different on each movie. You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.

Jeff Bridges

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Out of drag, I'm a white guy with a guitar, which isn't special. There are a million white guys with guitars. But being a drag queen with a guitar is a lot more commanding.

Trixie Mattel

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I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut.

Ruth Reichl

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We don't want bookstores to die. Authors need them, and so do neighborhoods.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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We British and Americans have never been conquered and occupied by the Germans, or forced to make the choice between defiance and collaboration, or haunted by the choices, evasions and moral ambiguities that only a defeated and occupied country can feel.

Michael Korda

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I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.

LL Cool J

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I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty.

Jonas Gahr Store

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I had a big fight in my first week in secondary school. There was a kid in the year above who was nasty to me, and we ended up having a scrap. I can remember thinking that there was going to be some serious bloodshed if we didn't stop, so I made a decision to walk away. It was a difficult thing to do, but the most sensible.

Jonathan Stroud

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You have to make your wedding day all about you.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

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I like films better than the theater because you have to spend so much energy projecting your voice from the stage in the sheer effort to be heard.

Denholm Elliott

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