Martina Navratilova Quotes

I've been asked who I would pay to watch to play tennis, and Roger would be one of the few.

Martina Navratilova

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• There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Hard
  • Again

• Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • People
  • Way
  • Most

• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Men
  • Waiting

• I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Live
  • Done
  • Home

• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Moral
  • Wine

• The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • Problem
  • Christian

• It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religion
  • Concerned

• Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Technology

• I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Words
  • Loss
  • Even

• Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Job
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Drama
  • Rich
  • Become

• My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Women
  • Home
  • Mother

• 'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.

  

  Faizon Love
  • Kids
  • You
  • Know

• Thomas Tuchel is a coach who can work in the long-term.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Work
  • Long
  • Coach

• I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Moment
  • Permanent
  • Muses

• I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Always

• Tennis is interesting because the women are almost more popular than the men. In the U.S. Open, women even get exactly the same money as the men.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'

  

  Jeffrey R. Immelt
  • Done
  • Wish
  • Boy

• When you grow up, you don't realize that your parents are any different than anybody else's. And their behavior - you have nothing to compare it to. So that is what normal is, even if it's abnormal.

  

  James Lapine
  • Up
  • Different
  • Parents

• That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Different
  • Character
  • Moral

• Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus.

  

  Lucas Grabeel
  • Important
  • Success

• I've been asked who I would pay to watch to play tennis, and Roger would be one of the few.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Tennis