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Peter Sagan Cyclist
Riding

"I was always fast riding bikes with my brother who got me on a bike. There was little to do so I ended up riding everywhere. It was both my transportation, entertainment, and a good way perhaps to make a living I hope."

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Paul Watson Journalist
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"A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle."

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"That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do."

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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
Riding

"The goal is to live with God like composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces."

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Deng Xiaoping Politician
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"The influence of the Gang of Four should not be underrated, but it should be noted that 97 or 98 per cent of the population hate them intensely for their crimes. This was shown by the mass movement against the Gang of Four which erupted at Tiananmen Square on April 5, 1976, when the Gang were still riding high, Chairman Mao was critically ill and Premier Zhou had passed away."

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine."

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Valentino Rossi Motorcycle Racer
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"I am completely focused on being strong, riding fast, and enjoying myself. With the new generation of riders, only the chronometer counts. I need to be faster than them on track."

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Charlie Munger Investor, Businessman
Riding

"With so much money riding on reported numbers, human nature is to manipulate them. And with so many doing it, you get Serpico effects, where everyone rationalizes that it's okay because everyone else is doing it. It is always thus."

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J. D. Salinger Novelist, Short Story Writer
Riding

"Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up."

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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
Riding

"Chris Christie said he will top Donald Trump's Iowa State Fair helicopter entrance by riding in on a pony. As a result, all the ponies in Iowa have gone into hiding."

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