Alistair Brownlee Quotes
The great thing about running is that you can get away to your own thoughts and get in a little bubble.
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
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I came to Los Angeles only after filming 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' when I was cast in the independent movie 'Delirium.' Director Lee Roy Kunz was looking everywhere for a Russian actress. He saw my photos, and only then he learned where I starred before! Eventually, I spent several months in the U.S., and we made the film quickly.
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I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.
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The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
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Who doesn't love a funny girl who can look sexy at the same time?
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Even in making objects, as soon as you start to get the feeling that some form of craft is coming into place, you realize that everything is wrong. Because craft is really just a fetish. It is wasted energy. It's about the object, some space which has nothing to do with the human.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey,' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'
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I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.
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The great thing about running is that you can get away to your own thoughts and get in a little bubble.
