Victoria Pendleton Quotes

Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple for tea. I might have a wee glass of wine.

Victoria Pendleton

• Food
• Simple
• Wine
• Tea
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• Friday

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• I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.

  

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• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

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• Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

  

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• It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.

  

  Vin Scully
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• I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!

  

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• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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  • Leader
  • Satan

• I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Play
  • Boring
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• I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • May
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• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Strong
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Myself
  • Care
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• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

  

  Karen O
  • Amazing
  • Rock
  • Star

• I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Wind

• They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

  

  Kate Millett
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • First
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• A secret is powerful when it is empty.

  

  Umberto Eco
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  • Secret
  • Empty

• There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.

  

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  • Life
  • Football

• I play the guitar a little bit.

  

  Jim DeMint

• Engineering is too important to wait for science.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Important
  • Science
  • Engineering

• I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • People
  • Trying

• I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Belief
  • Genius
  • Blessing

• Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple for tea. I might have a wee glass of wine.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Food
  • Simple
  • Wine