Victoria Pendleton Quotes
Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Golf is not easy.
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I like things simple.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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It's not about putting a speaker in a chair or putting a TV in a bed. That's not how technology and the home intersect. For me, it's about sensors, about the home knowing where you are.
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While the Assads are despotic, George H.W. Bush made the father an ally in Desert Storm, and Ehud Barak offered to return to Hafez Assad the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal.
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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Basketball was every day of my life. Wake up with a ball - sometimes I'd sleep with it because someone told me that was better for you.
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When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
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The CrossFit program is broad, general and inclusive, and most of all, the movements can be scaled down to any level of athlete. Just watch what I do with it on 'The Biggest Loser.'
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Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves.
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Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.
