Bradley Wiggins Quotes
You train all year for the physical aspect of cycling, but you can't plan for what comes next. You're still the same person. External perceptions might change, but inside, you're the same.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
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I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
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In Washington, D.C., in 2006, Democrats had long since given up on the war in Iraq in terms of any tangible political support for it. The new factor was the Republicans were beginning to give up as well, and they were truly challenging the strategy and the lack of success.
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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
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'Walking Dead' has done great on Netflix, but to pay for the full output deal just to get 'Walking Dead' didn't make sense.
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George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?
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I like to prepare each tour in a different way.
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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
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Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.
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I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for a little league team.
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When I directed my first short – 'American Virgin' – I had no idea if I could actually do it. Like, I might just get onto set, have everyone look at me and just completely freeze and have no idea what to do. But pretty much the opposite of that happened. I was like a fish diving into the sea.
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When either sex suppresses the expression of feelings, it’s almost always b/c they don’t feel there is a safe environment to express them.
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I have my father to thank for my build and height, and my mother to thank for my lips and eyes.
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As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.
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Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Superman has been my favorite character since I was six years old, and I have more comics featuring Superman than any other single character.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
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You train all year for the physical aspect of cycling, but you can't plan for what comes next. You're still the same person. External perceptions might change, but inside, you're the same.
