Lizzie Armitstead Quotes

I don't particularly buy into all the nutrition fads and that sort of thing.

Lizzie Armitstead

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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.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Money
  • Pain
  • Child

• Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Bad
  • Movie
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• So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

  

  Nate Silver
  • New
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• For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Pretty
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• All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

  

  Walter Benjamin
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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.

  

  Ted Yoho
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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.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Money
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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.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Life
  • Taken

• 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?

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Question

• When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Attention
  • Pay
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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?

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Best
  • Pie
  • Controversial

• Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
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  • Animal

• 'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Men
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• Democracy without morality is impossible.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Democracy
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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.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Fan

• There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste!

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • World
  • High
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• I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • People
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• Breakin' in cribs with a crowbar I wasn't poor, I was po', I couldn't afford the 'o-r'

  

  Big L
  • Crowbar
  • Breakin

• The 'New York Times' is not reviewing books by non-white people.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • People

• We tell the for-profit sector, 'Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value,' but we don't like to see our donations spent on advertising in charity. Our attitude is, 'Well look, if you can get the advertising donated (at four o'clock in the morning) I'm okay with that, but I don't want my donation spent on advertising, I want it to go to the needy,' as if the money invested in advertising could not bring in dramatically greater sums of money to serve the needy.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Advertising
  • Spend
  • Dollar

• I don't particularly buy into all the nutrition fads and that sort of thing.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead