Martina Navratilova Quotes
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
Martina Navratilova
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
Barry Bonds
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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.
W. Bruce Cameron
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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.
Laraine Day
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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.
Queen Latifah
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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.
La'Porsha Renae
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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.
Fay Wray
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I mostly want to be friends with my children.
Vanessa Paradis
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Coming into high school, it's scary. You don't know which group to be in, and I can't stand that it's so cliquey.
Alexa Vega
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We don't want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful - not only to that member of the community but the entire community.
Kamala Harris
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There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it's not easy.
Kirk Gibson
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In terms of other people's perception of me, that's their business. There are people who I have never met but, for whatever reason, I am certain that these people are jack-offs. I've never met Billy Joel, but I'm absolutely convinced he's an asshole. I can't justify that opinion, that's just what I think. But my opinion about Billy Joel isn't going to affect him in the slightest. In the same way, I am sure there are people out there who are completely convinced that I am an asshole, for whatever reason. They might even feel more justified than I feel about my presumptive opinion of Billy Joel.
Steve Albini
Big Black
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Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
Martina Navratilova