Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
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It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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I've been a lucky boy.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness. There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together.
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To grow, people need to be challenged.
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Speed is the No. 1 thing. Our core competency has been doing exactly this: buying companies and integrating them quickly.
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There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
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With 'Trainwreck,' because it wasn't live and we could do more takes, I feel like we broke a lot.
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Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.
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I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.
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Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.
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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, 'good fences make good neighbors.'
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It was men’s ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.
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Mind is a captive of the body.
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That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.
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Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.
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A certain scenario kept repeating itself. The people from the magazines would take two or three shots of the band. They’d start to pack up. And then they’d sort of take me off into a corner by myself. After about the thirtieth time that a photographer asked me to take my shirt off, I started to get the picture.
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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
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I pay my taxes.
