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.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
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.'
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I like to be against the odds.
Barry Bonds -
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.
Rachel Cusk -
In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
Jack Lemmon -
Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
Nathan Deal
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
Pablo Neruda -
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
F. Lee Bailey -
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.
Francesco Guicciardini -
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.
D. W. Griffith -
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
Barbara Johnson -
Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.
Fernando Pessoa
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The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.
Barbara W. Tuchman -
A man becomes successful by repressing his feelings, not expressing his feelings.
Warren Farrell -
Κέρδιστον εὖ φρονοῦντα μὴ φρονεῖν δοκεῖν.
Aeschylus -
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.
Burnie Burns -
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.
Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons -
There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.
Alexander Skarsgard
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I don't want to have to be beautiful all the time. I want to be able to look cruddy in my weekend sweats, with a pimple on my face and pimple cream on top of the pimple. The expectation to always be beautiful bothers me.
Cindy Crawford -
The concept of downsizing so that others might upgrade is biblical, beautiful...and nearly unheard of. We either close the gap or don't take the words of the Bible literally.
Francis Chan -
When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.
Abraham Isaac Kook -
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.
Umberto Eco -
I always compare myself to the best.
Bradley Wiggins