Ashton Eaton Quotes

What you do is you're using the other competitors to push yourself, because it's so hard to push yourself.

Ashton Eaton

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What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?

Joan Blades

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The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

Jerzy Kosinski

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I had challenges to overcome as a child, and that was good.

John Caudwell

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To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

John Lautner

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Nobody gets excited when they see me. If I put on my wizard outfit and walk around the airport for a couple of hours, I get a couple of puzzled glances.

Andy Kindler

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I love film, but I feeling a bit needy about returning to the stage.

Aneurin Barnard

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Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be.

John Updike

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I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

Steve Garvey

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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

Robert A. Heinlein

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God is so kind, he has given so much sunshine to India.

Masayoshi Son

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I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

Mike Shinoda

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One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you.

Moby

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