Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
Olivia Holt -
I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
Gabriel Byrne -
Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
Vernon Howard -
One of my favorite things about playing Avery Jennings on 'Dog With a Blog' is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues.
G. Hannelius -
It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.
Victoria Pendleton
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
Kate Moss -
The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
Faran Tahir -
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
Walter Dean Myers -
I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
Fairuza Balk -
I don't think there is much American music.
Harrison Birtwistle -
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison -
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
Lana Del Rey -
Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
Fiona McIntosh -
But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
Ira Glass -
I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
Baz Luhrmann
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I'd only do a deal with a label if it allowed me to still be indie and have that indie mentality. I have to have creative control.
Dawn Angeliqué Richard -
Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.
Pierre Curie -
I've always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.
Dwayne Johnson -
I'm very close with my friends. If someone was to ever come along and be the right person, they would have to get along with my friends.
Matt Harvey -
I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way.
Leon Russell -
I find weddings too procedural sometimes. I just want a big, fun party.
Lizzie Armitstead