Victoria Pendleton Quotes
I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don't like, but they work it and walk the runway.
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Economists are evaluated on how intelligent they sound, not on a scientific measure of their knowledge of reality. (page 85)
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We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.
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I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.
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All those poor elves I haven’t set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren’t enough hats!
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The price of training is always a certain "trained incapacity": the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
