Bradley Wiggins Quotes

I'd love to win Paris-Roubaix.

Bradley Wiggins

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• In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • World
  • Running

• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • American
  • America

• When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Time
  • Art
  • Fashion

• London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'

  

  Gaston Lachaise
  • Career
  • Woman
  • Vision

• The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Nice
  • Day
  • Made

• I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Job
  • Decision
  • New York

• I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Long
  • She
  • City

• You go to Paris, or you go to Portugal, you go to Poland, and you ask, 'Who are you people?' They'll tell you, we're Portuguese, we're Spanish, we're Polish. Who are the people that are really European? The people in Brussels, in the E.U. bureaucracy. Europe has not been able to move to the level of patriotic identification with the concept.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • You
  • Paris

• I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay, that's enough, I have to start doing something.' I went to the acting agency and I just told them I wanted to act and asked them if they would give me a chance, and they did.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Different
  • Day
  • Chance

• I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Style
  • Study
  • Theatre

• There's different shopping in Paris than there is at a bazaar in Istanbul, but they're all wonderful.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Different
  • Paris
  • Shopping

• April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Paris
  • Holiday
  • Trees

• Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Writing
  • Desire
  • Learning

• I don't like Paris so much.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Like
  • Paris
  • Much

• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Paris
  • Luxury
  • Grand Canyon

• You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • You
  • Paris
  • Shopping

• Don't be afraid of who sits in the White House. God can triumph over Trump.

  

  Bernice King
  • God
  • House
  • Trump

• The Boston Symphony is one of the best orchestras in the world and has such a great tradition - which I want to cherish, of course, and to learn from and to continue and to add whatever I can add.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • World
  • Great

• The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.

  

  Ellsworth Huntington
  • Home

• Comic Con has become a very relevant venue for all films.

  

  Jon Favreau

• I'd love to win Paris-Roubaix.

  

  Bradley Wiggins
  • Paris