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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The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.
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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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When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next.
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'Eastern Promises' is great.
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Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.
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I pay my taxes.
