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.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • World
  • Best
  • Looking Forward

• Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

  

  Samantha Power
  • American
  • Something

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • World
  • Energy
  • Positive

• Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Way
  • Africa
  • Middle East

• A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Future
  • Death
  • Past

• A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Experience
  • London
  • Bicycle

• But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Today
  • Media

• 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.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Die

• 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.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Remember
  • Education
  • Hands

• 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.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Writing
  • You
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Different
  • Government
  • Legal

• Who doesn't love a funny girl who can look sexy at the same time?

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Equality
  • Racism
  • Treat

• Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Dance
  • Shadow

• I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Believe
  • America

• We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Good
  • Universe
  • Trust

• Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • People
  • Great
  • Literature

• I feel as though perhaps there's not a great match between the content I'm attracted to and the content that is considered attractive to some of the more major or more traditionally financed entities.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Great

• I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Strong
  • Jump
  • Survival

• Prince is extremely soulful, but he can get real rock-'n'-rollish. So can Lenny Kravitz. Lenny's real soulful but he's got that rock with him, too. On the whole, I guess black folks ain't trying to handle rock-'n'-roll, really.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Black

• The great thing about running is that you can get away to your own thoughts and get in a little bubble.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • Great
  • Running
  • Thoughts