Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
It's not always about gold medals, I think. It has to be about development, and we are missing that in U.K. at the moment.
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I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.
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As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
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I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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I'm definitely more of a 'think game' kind of girl. I'll read every single dialogue and codex entry and lore entry. I really do love projecting myself and creating my character.
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People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
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I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.
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I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.
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My greatest competition is, well, me.
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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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One of the silliest of all discussions is the question whether God is personal-it would be more useful to inquire whether ice is frozen.
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The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.
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If you are too busy to pray then you are too busy.
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O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!
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It's not always about gold medals, I think. It has to be about development, and we are missing that in U.K. at the moment.
