Victoria Pendleton Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
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It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
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Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
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An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss.
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The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the body.
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
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I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.
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What lots of people have been trying to do ever since is find what's beyond the current Standard Model. So far, it has stood impervious to all attacks.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
