Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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Everything that I have is natural – braid, nails – I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.
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My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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The show has become my therapy.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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Doing Broadway was always a dream of mine since I was a little girl.
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You can't have a U.S. Open anymore without an extra course to store all the hospitality tents. I used to be able to drive up to the clubhouse and park like the players. Now, there are seven corporate hospitality guys who have my spot, and I'm on a bus.
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What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. ... Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
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You are so intent that you believe only what you believe that you believe, that you remain utterly blind to what you really believe without believing that you believe it.
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Other people, and it doesn't matter if they are Scandinavians or Celts,Think that anything is better than theirs just because it belongs to somebody else.
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The technology and tactics of attack have now far surpassed the technology of defense despite the development of highly maneuverable and powerful anti-missiles with nuclear warheads and despite other technical ideas, such as the use of laser beams and so forth.
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If only you knew how little I care. Cowardly or not, as long as he is a good kisser.
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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.
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I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.
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I usually just have a circle of people that I associate myself with. I'm not really cool with a lot of people. It might seem like I'm cool with them, but I'm really not.
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Mastery is often taken for egotism.
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I used to think that in order to be lean, I had to under-eat.
