Bradley Wiggins Quotes
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'
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I like to be against the odds.
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An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
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Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.
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The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
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Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements.
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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
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Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.
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The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.
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A man becomes successful by repressing his feelings, not expressing his feelings.
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Κέρδιστον εὖ φρονοῦντα μὴ φρονεῖν δοκεῖν.
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We've always had a roadmap to feature filmmaking, and making a feature film could have been three or four years away for us. But crowdfunding helped us get there in a year, and it allowed us to take a much bigger step.
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If I close my eyes, I can remember the first apartment where I lived with my family in Newark, N.J., in the late 1930s. The rooms were lined up like train cars - you had to go through one to get to another - and there wasn't any heat or hot water.
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It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.
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No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
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Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling.
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I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
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I will say, though, that San Francisco is a very friendly city. It's the kind of place where people smile at you and you can strike up conversations on the street, so there's always an adjustment when I come back to New York. If I smile at someone on the street in New York, then they think there's something up - like, "Why is she smiling?"
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I always compare myself to the best.
