Matthew Thomas Skiba Quotes

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 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
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  • Innocent
  • 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

• It has been difficult to get back on the saddle, particularly after getting whiplash and concussion, but it's just about understanding that sometimes it's OK to say, 'I don't want to get back on my bike for week.'

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Understanding
  • Bike

• I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays, but I stick it in 3,5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.

  

  Donny Robinson
  • Travel
  • Bike

• I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.

  

  Will Self
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  • Trash
  • Weirdo

• I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so I can't talk about French women.

  

  Berenice Marlohe
  • Women
  • Paris

• And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Always
  • Better
  • Luck

• I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

  

  Moon Unit Zappa
  • Remember
  • Concepts
  • Realising

• I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here.

  

  Michael Owen Bruce
  • Different
  • Versions
  • Iceland

• 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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