Victoria Pendleton Quotes

Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.

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• What goes for sex goes double for politics.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Sex
  • Politics
  • Double

• I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Popular

• The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Good
  • Home
  • Kids

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If you're in a situation where you're supposed to react, you need to react.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Character
  • Think
  • Yourself

• 'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Man
  • Idea
  • Mad

• God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • God
  • Understanding

• I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Truth
  • True

• To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Different
  • War
  • Change

• Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mediocrity
  • Heroism

• I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Hate
  • Animals
  • Loss

• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Pleasure
  • Loved

• I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Dream
  • Myself
  • Best

• As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Time
  • Doubt
  • Leadership

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Real
  • Father
  • Like

• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Career
  • Wish

• I graduated high school, and I always wanted to go to college, but I also really wanted to work at a young age. At 18, I was pitching talk show ideas to different networks. I was a journalist.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Work
  • Different
  • School

• I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Political
  • Science
  • Action

• Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Life
  • Like
  • Winning