Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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Your environment doesn't define you. I don't have a lot of money, but I can help train people and I can talk to people. We can all be mentors to the next generation.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
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Judaism is a whole line of values that have existed for thousands of years, but the democratic idea is a new idea, and significant parts of it stand in contradiction to Judaism.
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'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.
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Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.
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Selena is a classic and timeless singer, and she really doesn't need an introduction. Her music is always good for the soul.
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There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.
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Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
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I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride of lineage so great as to despise no man's father; in pride of race so chivalrous as neither to offer bastardy to the weak nor beg wedlock of the strong, knowing that men may be brothers in Christ, even though they be not brothers-in-law.
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I don't particularly buy into all the nutrition fads and that sort of thing.
