Lizzie Armitstead Quotes

I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.

Lizzie Armitstead

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• When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.

  

  Adam Green
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Movie

• Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Power
  • Nature

• I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Loved

• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Prayer
  • Self
  • Strength

• If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.

  

  Young Thug
  • You
  • Years
  • Old

• With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Confidence

• I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Think
  • Always
  • Things

• For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Welfare
  • Poor People

• When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.

  

  Lara Stone
  • People
  • Remember
  • End

• People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Life
  • Book

• The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Great
  • Guy

• We can never legitimately cut loose from our archetypal foundations unless we are prepared to pay the price of a neurosis, any more than we can rid ourselves of our body and its organs without committing suicide.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Suicide

• And so to Mrs. Martin and there did what je voudrais avec her, both devante and backward, which is also muy bon plazer.

  

  Samuel Pepys

• I just remember sitting in my trailer hysterically crying from the embarrassment I felt about myself, my body - and that no one could talk to me directly.

  

  Ali Larter
  • Remember
  • Crying

• Manhattan. Sometimes from beyond the skyscrapers, across of thousands of high walls, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia in the middle of the night, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Remember
  • High
  • Night

• There's a lot of pressure, and it's a long battle, to coach at the elite level. My wife and I didn't take a vacation for 10 years.

  

  Liang Chow
  • Long
  • Wife
  • Vacation

• I have very fond memories of the Eagles from my experience with 'Invincible' and my college days in Philadelphia. But I am a Massachusetts girl and a Pats fan.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Experience
  • Girl
  • College

• I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.

  

  Al Roker
  • Family
  • Cooking

• I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

  

  Emma Watson
  • People
  • Time
  • Feeling

• Voters go into the ballot box with big ideas in their mind: leadership, change, experience, hope.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Hope

• I've reached the age where young people frequently ask for my advice. All I can really say is that electronics is a fascinating field that I continue to find fulfilling. The field is still growing rapidly, and the opportunities that are ahead are at least as great as they were when I graduated from college. My advice is to get involved and get started.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • People
  • Great
  • Age

• She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after another…That she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

  

  Andrew Bird

• I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead