Victoria Pendleton Quotes
People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
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I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
