Victoria Pendleton Quotes
It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
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Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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If you drop a channel, you're incredibly unpopular, and if you pass along a rate increase, you're incredibly unpopular.
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If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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I've always joked about Joe Montana not appreciating his Super Bowls nearly as much as I do because he never lost one. We lost three before we got one.
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It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.
