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I was a bicycle messenger when Alkaline Trio was formed as a way to make ends meet and I've just always been a cyclist and then I got really into - through messengering - I got really into road bikes and fixed gears.

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• I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Study
  • Photography
  • Bicycle

• Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Success
  • City

• I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Father
  • Passion
  • Bike

• I'm definitely capable of just enjoying riding my bike these days.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Bike
  • Capable
  • Riding

• I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Trying
  • Dad
  • Thought

• I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I'm still good.

  

  Pat Bowlen
  • Good
  • Work
  • Strong

• I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Trying
  • Poetry
  • California

• I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • House
  • Bike
  • Rocks

• L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• I've got my advanced scuba diving license. I'm playing tennis and exercising. I ride my bike everywhere. I've been finding new things. I've been more creative in music and doing different videos. And just meeting different people and being around and present. I'm wonderful when I'm just on nothing.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.

  

  Lela Rose
  • City
  • Bike

• I've got a quad bike, which I've raced against neighbours. You could give me a go-kart with a lawnmower engine - I'd still have fun. I like jet skis, speedboats, all the boys' toys.

  

  Lee Pearson
  • Fun
  • Bike

• I like playing basketball and going to the gym. I don't box, but I'll ride my bike and go jogging or running in the park. Sometimes my lady and I go hiking.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Running
  • Basketball
  • Gym

• At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

  

  Denise Van Outen
  • Long
  • Bike

• I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Remember
  • Innocent
  • Bike

• I remember, my first bicycle was very much a used bike. I wasn't going to Wal-Mart, buying a flashy 10-speed bike from China. Are you kidding me?

  

  Charles Schwab
  • Remember
  • Bike

• I ride the same bike that I rode on 'Sons,' a Harley Dyna Super Glide. You know, I wish I wasn't the guy who rode the same bike he rode on his show, but the problem is there's no better bike out there.

  

  Charlie Hunnam
  • Guy
  • Wish
  • Bike

• I'm made to ride a bike, not do washing.

  

  Caroline Buchanan
  • Bike

• I try to have a different relationship with the bike. I don't give it a name, but I always speak with it. I don't know if the other riders do the same. This is not only a piece of metal - there is a soul. The bike talks back too. But not with a voice, with the components

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Different
  • Soul
  • Relationship

• At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• Use words that soak up life.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Use

• But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Soul

• What social media has done - Facebook, Twitter - is show the audience. I don't have an audience. When I make my work, it just goes out into the ether. I have a thick skin and it just brings me down to earth, you know, to realize how out-there and far away and paltry the audience is that gets what I'm saying. It's depressing if I let it get to me. And it's the same with hanging a show, the way it's put up, like, three stories high and you can't read a single word.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Done
  • Earth
  • Skins

• I was a bicycle messenger when Alkaline Trio was formed as a way to make ends meet and I've just always been a cyclist and then I got really into - through messengering - I got really into road bikes and fixed gears.

  

  Matthew Thomas Skiba Blink-182
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