Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up.
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Voters, whatever their political views, should rise up against politicians who want to dilute the Bill of Rights to perpetuate their tenure in office.
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I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
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I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
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In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.
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I can't pick up the phone to everybody that doubts me and explain myself.
