Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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We should all love animals.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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Just because someone looks old doesn't mean he or she is. The skin of some people who spend a lot of time outdoors seems to age very rapidly. Someone can look 80 or 90 and only be 40 to 50.
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.
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My first company failed completely. And it failed at about ten months old. I had about 12 months of savings, so when it failed I was thinking: 'Do I go back to work?' And at that point I believed so deeply in what I was doing that I couldn't imagine anything else other than trying to make this business work.
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I have a soft spot for vintage movie houses covered in goo; what can I say?
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I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people.
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My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!
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Cycling is a business.
