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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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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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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People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.
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You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.
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Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.
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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.
