Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
As a female athlete, I think it's really important to stand up on a podium and represent females and what we're capable of, and I always try to make political statements with what I do rather than with headlines.
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I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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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.
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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That's why I'm going to Katmandu,Up to the mountains where I'm going to.If I ever get out of here,That's what I'm gonna do.
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I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family’s premium by up to $2,500 a year.
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My mom keeps me grounded and all that. She makes me do chores.
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If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what.
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If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful.
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As a female athlete, I think it's really important to stand up on a podium and represent females and what we're capable of, and I always try to make political statements with what I do rather than with headlines.
