Martina Navratilova Quotes

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

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• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Always
  • Creation
  • Shame

• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Career
  • Ever
  • Decent

• New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • New
  • Behavior
  • Passive

• The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Up
  • God
  • Eye

• One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Reading
  • Serious
  • Write

• Theatre gives you wings as an actor.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Theatre
  • Actor
  • Wings

• I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Bad
  • Me

• There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Good
  • Learning

• I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Best

• We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Best
  • Bullying

• I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Church

• I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I'm aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Up
  • Important
  • Water

• There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Friends
  • Laugh
  • Fair

• The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Diamond

• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Profession
  • Ethical

• The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Up

• I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • People
  • Great
  • Why

• You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Wife
  • Child
  • Yourself

• I've recently rediscovered Anthony Trollope. I used to read him back in college, and a friend turned me on to a whole new series of his work, 'The Palliser Series.' It's a series of seven or eight books.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • Work
  • College
  • Friend

• My family was really big on college, and it was hard for them to stomach that I was going to be a hairdresser.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • Family
  • College

• It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Why
  • Job