Martina Navratilova Quotes
I regret that I had to leave my country. But I had to do it in order to achieve and decide my own fate. I was forced into it. Democracy came about 15 years too late for me. But I have to say that it's there now, and Czech Republic is a fantastic country; it always was but just had the wrong regime at the top.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
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For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.
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I was definitely very much a country boy.
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I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
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Every week brings to us 10,080 minutes That is our capital. How shall we use it to get the utmost benefit?
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The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
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We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
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The favorite thing I like to do is nothing. I'm such an expert at doing nothing. I have a boat. I make training films for the Coast Guard. I listen to a great deal of opera.
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An email address is like a customer's "digital fingerprint".
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I regret that I had to leave my country. But I had to do it in order to achieve and decide my own fate. I was forced into it. Democracy came about 15 years too late for me. But I have to say that it's there now, and Czech Republic is a fantastic country; it always was but just had the wrong regime at the top.
