Bradley Wiggins Quotes
It's still the height of every four years for me, regardless of Tours de France and everything: it's all about the Olympics.
Quotes to Explore
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
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You put high heels on and you change.
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The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.
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I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
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I came to Christ in my early 20s.
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So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.
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My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.
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I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.
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Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
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I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.
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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
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Trump is a potential disaster as commander-in-chief-uninformed, volatile, poor judgment. Hard to believe this is the candidate of a major political party.
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And we can always supply them with a program that makes identical files into links to a single file.
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Margaret Sanger: Oh, John you do ask hard questions. I should think, that instead of being impractical, it is really very practical and intelligent and humane.
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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
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The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain what is happening in the world.
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Between sixteen and eighteen, I was singing anywhere I could, in bars or down at the pub.
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Gender data is important. If girls don’t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?
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Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so it's constantly a mystery as to what you're going to be doing.
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It's still the height of every four years for me, regardless of Tours de France and everything: it's all about the Olympics.
