Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
I think about Rio every day. Every day in training, it's something that drives me forward. I want to be Olympic champion.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
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When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.
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I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.
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But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
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In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.
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Live your lives. Go out; take walks amongst trees.
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My challenge is to find a beautiful balance: to make women beautiful, to make a woman dream to wear a beautiful outfit.
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We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others.
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I've written the best work I know how. And I'm appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work - and that's pretty much the end of that.
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The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.
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I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something.
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'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.
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My father was an entomologist who believed in continental drift. In the early '50s, that was regarded as nonsense. It was in the mid-'50s that it came back. Someone had thought of it 30 or 40 years earlier named Alfred Wegener, and he never got to see it come back.
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I think about Rio every day. Every day in training, it's something that drives me forward. I want to be Olympic champion.
