Victoria Pendleton Quotes
People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.
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I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me.
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Long live the Republic, long live France.
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Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.
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Does the right hon. Lady understand-if she does not yet understand she soon will-that the penalty for treachery is to fall into public contempt?
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
