Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
It's really important for cycling and for women to be on a sporting stage which is in the mainstream and across the board, not just my own sport.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.
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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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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.
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I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.
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Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.
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The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
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Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums.
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It's really important for cycling and for women to be on a sporting stage which is in the mainstream and across the board, not just my own sport.
