Geraint Thomas Quotes
I just love riding my bike - no more so than at home in Cardiff and in South Wales on the roads where I started out, riding with my mates who I grew up with.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.
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When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to me an actor. You know that you're on the right track and you're doing work that can affect people. When that goes hand-in-hand with important issues that we're still living with, and we will be for a long time, sadly, it's so confirming of everything.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.
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No doors were locked, few shut. There were no disguises and no advertisements. It was all there, all the work, all the life of the city, open to the eye and to the hand.
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Plowboy: In your opinion, what are mankind's prospects for the near future?
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The kickboxing and the martial arts is so fun. It's like anything in school. You're not going to retain information unless you're interested in it.
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Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.
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Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.
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I just love riding my bike - no more so than at home in Cardiff and in South Wales on the roads where I started out, riding with my mates who I grew up with.
