Victoria Pendleton Quotes
I was constantly being told I shouldn't talk so much about how I was feeling. They seemed to think I was giving too much away to my competitors. Showing signs of weakness. But I've always thought that was rubbish.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.
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But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
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You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
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I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.'
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.
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I was constantly being told I shouldn't talk so much about how I was feeling. They seemed to think I was giving too much away to my competitors. Showing signs of weakness. But I've always thought that was rubbish.
