Lizzie Armitstead Quotes

I never gave up, and for that, I can be proud of myself.

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• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Success
  • Kind

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Place
  • Start
  • Questions

• When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Men
  • Free
  • Speak

• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Long
  • Live
  • Yourself

• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Reality
  • Way
  • Appearance

• We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Choice

• Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Nature
  • Things
  • Nothing

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Like
  • Outside
  • Philadelphia

• The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Broken

• I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Wife
  • Church
  • Presbyterian

• If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Men
  • Women
  • Equality

• I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Man

• Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Long
  • Women
  • History

• Whatever storytelling muscles you've developed as a documentary filmmaker will be extremely helpful as a narrative filmmaker.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • You
  • Storytelling
  • Muscles

• I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.

  

  Larry Buchanan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Player

• Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Time
  • Men
  • Writing

• I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • People

• I'm as hungry as ever.

  

  Kevin Pietersen

• I would advise dancers, musicians and others in the entertainment industry to take up yoga, as it clears the mind and creates a sense of balance and stillness which is important for any performing artist.

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • Up
  • Important
  • Mind

• The same old hypocrisy. Life is a fight, and the strongest wins. All civilization does is hide the blood and cover up the hate with pretty words!

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Pretty

• I never gave up, and for that, I can be proud of myself.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead
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