Bradley Wiggins Quotes
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.
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I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
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If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.
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The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.
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Civility is a choice.
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For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
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You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
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I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.
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It's very special that the Olympics is in London. As a first Olympic experience, it's going to be pretty incredible.
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No court can make time stand still.
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I'm not asking victims to change their behavior. I'm asking perpetrators not to commit crimes.
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It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.
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Wives are around a lot longer than your sporting years.
