Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
I never quit. The times when I have quit in the past because I couldn't face trying harder have stayed with me, and the guilt is not worth it.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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If you want to have prosperity here, we really have to see our small businesses able to grow and compete around the world.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
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My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one profession - there's something suspicious about it! But nowadays it's more accepted that one can do a lot of things.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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If you crossed Matthew Henry's path, you would quickly realize that here was someone taking thankful notice of all God was doing for him, and doing so in an attractively joyful way that was infectious.
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I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.
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I never quit. The times when I have quit in the past because I couldn't face trying harder have stayed with me, and the guilt is not worth it.
