Lizzie Armitstead Quotes

The problem, as a female athlete, is that you don't want to come across as negative and moaning.

Lizzie Armitstead

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• My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • School
  • Mother

• I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Nature
  • Sometimes
  • Politics

• I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Been
  • Out

• I would say Hope Solo is competitive.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Hope
  • Say
  • Competitive

• Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Music
  • Songs
  • Playing

• No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Different
  • Important
  • Change

• Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Man
  • Progress
  • Lifting

• My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Women
  • Game
  • Old

• When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Music
  • Together
  • Reading

• The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Wealth
  • Key
  • U.S.

• It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.

  

  Oliver North
  • Up
  • Today
  • Phones

• I'm a religious broadcaster.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Religious
  • Broadcaster

• A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Senior

• But it's always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Great
  • Find
  • Difficult

• I've travelled a huge amount, but almost all of it has been through work. I spent five years stationed in London in the special services of the American Air Force, producing and directing shows for the troops, which I absolutely loved.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Work
  • American
  • Air

• All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Society

• Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Emotional
  • Body
  • Athlete

• The premise of 'Descent' may sound pretty straightforward: One summer morning while vacationing with her family in the foothills of the Rockies, a young girl, a high-school athlete in her senior year, goes out for a run in the higher altitudes - and disappears.

  

  Alan Cheuse
  • Family
  • School
  • May

• I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.

  

  Kimberly Elise
  • Up
  • Dance
  • Athlete

• He's had a big learning curve, and we want to play him more than what we did the other night, ... has got him scheduled to play more. He's a very good athlete, and he also can carry the football, and at some point here I'd like to get him a few carries and kind of see what he looks like there, too. But I think it's just a work in progress, and we're working really hard with him.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Work
  • Game

• Really, ambition has gone. I look for things that tickle my fancy. You begin to see the end of life on the horizon. You think, 'It's not going on forever, this.' Let's make the most of what time I have left.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Forever

• The problem, as a female athlete, is that you don't want to come across as negative and moaning.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
  • Athlete