Martina Navratilova Quotes
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
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I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
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As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.
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Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.
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I mostly want to be friends with my children.
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Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.
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Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.
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He was such a nice guy. And he said, Oh, I'm never going to attack. But then his poll numbers tanked. He's got - that's why he's on the end - and he got nasty. And he got nasty. So you know what? You can have him.
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What I hear a lot is that fresh, healthy eating isn't accessible. That it's full of bizarre ingredients people have never heard of that are really expensive. There's also a perception that it's time consuming and not very filling.
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Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.
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Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
