Geraint Thomas Quotes
I have come to see what the Tour is about, and it has been harder than I imagined. You don't realise what it is like until you actually compete.
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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There were many times when I had to emotionally come to terms with the fact that maybe I wasn't ever going to get married. And I started getting comfortable with that.
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Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.
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Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.
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I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.
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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
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There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.
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There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people.
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Just be nice to people and be someone people want to work with because if people don't like working with you it's just not going to work out.
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Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.
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All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
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It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.
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I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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Give me a treat, or leave me alone. It's Monday.
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I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.
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I have come to see what the Tour is about, and it has been harder than I imagined. You don't realise what it is like until you actually compete.
