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

• I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• 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

• It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Age

• 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 always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, 'Well, neither do I.' I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Up
  • Band
  • Magic

• A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

  

  Axel Munthe
  • Long
  • Man
  • Stand

• I came up in a time when Springsteen, the Stones, Dylan, and the Beatles were still dominant. For every magazine cover with a new band, there were five covers with one of those guys.

  

  Beck
  • Up
  • Time
  • Band

• The Vietnamese and the Republicans are, with an intensity, trying to take this seat from which we have done so much for our community - to take this seat and give it to this Van Tran, who is very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic.

  

  Loretta Sanchez
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Community

• I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.

  

  Edward Brooke
  • Up
  • Feeling

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

  

  Lizzie Armitstead