Martina Navratilova Quotes
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.
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There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
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I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
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If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.
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Sinatra slowly found a way to allow tenderness into the performance while remaining manly. He perfected the role of the Tender Tough Guy and passed it on to several generations of Americans. Before him, that archetype did not exist in American popular culture.
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I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.
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'She is the goddess of the dead. She comes to you smiling and kindly, and you know it is time to die.'
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There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.
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I think the key is for women not to set any limits.
