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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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.
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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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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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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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I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
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I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.
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We need to address hunger, job training, justice. I can't do it alone. We need to elect people who understand the urgency.
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You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.
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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.
