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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Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.
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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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Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you.
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The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents.
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I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.
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In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to a stand. Some particular entity, a pair of peasant shoes, comes in the work to stand in the light of its being. The being of the being comes into the steadiness of its shining. The nature of art would then be this: the truth of being setting itself to work.
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We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic temperature are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet as a whole.
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I don't particularly buy into all the nutrition fads and that sort of thing.
