Emma Pooley Quotes
It's been an incredible few weeks for Emma Pooley, first winning three stages in the Giro Rosa to demonstrate that she's the best climber in the women's peloton, then lining up for La Course - a race she helped to make happen - on the Champs-Elyses. So, it may come as a surprise to hear that she will retire after the Commonwealth Games road race on Sunday.Emma Pooley
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
Rachael Leigh Cook -
I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
Ted Yoho -
If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
Bayard Rustin -
I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
Iman -
As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
Samuel Barber -
He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
Pat Cash
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
Gary Johnson -
I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
Eartha Kitt -
I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
Taylor Schilling -
There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
Abraham Benrubi -
George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
Kate Middleton -
It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
J. D. Vance
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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
Halle Berry -
I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.
Nasim Pedrad -
You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.
Carly Fiorina -
The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.
Indira Gandhi -
I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'
B. B. King -
I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!
Victoria Legrand Beach House
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Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.
T. C. Boyle -
Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.
Jane Fonda -
It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.
Alexia Fast -
Zombies are soulless creatures, and being soulless has been empirically proven to result in an unpleasant disposition.
M. K. Hobson -
It's been an incredible few weeks for Emma Pooley, first winning three stages in the Giro Rosa to demonstrate that she's the best climber in the women's peloton, then lining up for La Course - a race she helped to make happen - on the Champs-Elyses. So, it may come as a surprise to hear that she will retire after the Commonwealth Games road race on Sunday.
Emma Pooley