Victoria Pendleton Quotes
We've all said, 'No, no, I couldn't do that... ' But actually, you could if you just went, 'You know what? I will... and I shall.' Once you realise that, it's quite wonderful.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
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So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.
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As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
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The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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We've all said, 'No, no, I couldn't do that... ' But actually, you could if you just went, 'You know what? I will... and I shall.' Once you realise that, it's quite wonderful.
