Bradley Wiggins Quotes
My mum put herself in £50,000 of debt to service my sporting career. She did everything for me to pursue my dream.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.
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If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
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The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.
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In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.
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Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.
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It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host.
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I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.
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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.
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My mum put herself in £50,000 of debt to service my sporting career. She did everything for me to pursue my dream.
