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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I have been 130 lbs. as well as 215 lbs. I have had blond, strawberry blond, green, pink and purple hair, and none of that has ever exempted me from having lewd comments flung at me in the street.
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I don't think it's good, culturally, to base all critical judgments on a single performance.
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I wanted to be the Dutch Bruce Jenner - that was my goal. He was my hero.
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I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.
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I pay my taxes.
