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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I think the most beautiful thing is that we're not parting because there were problems. We're parting because we're celebrating each others' growth.
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We must delight in each other, make other's conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.
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I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through.
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Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying mantis behind it. The mantis arches up its front leg to stab the cicada, but it doesn't know an oriole perches behind it. The bird stretches out its neck to snap up the mantis for a midday meal, but its unaware of the boy who's come into the garden with a net. Three creatures—the cicada, the mantis and the oriole—all coveted gains without being aware of the greater and inescapable danger that was coming.
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I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.
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I can't pick up the phone to everybody that doubts me and explain myself.
