Martina Navratilova Quotes

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• There's a lot more to me than just power.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Power
  • Me
  • More

• One of the biggest concerns that many voters have with both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but particularly with Ms. Clinton, is the sense that she uses government power to advance her personal and political interests. She is the very status quo. Americans want that changed.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Power
  • Political
  • Government

• Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Great
  • Family
  • Kids

• I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Done
  • Experience
  • American

• Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Quiet
  • Shy

• One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Remember
  • Ethical

• I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Good
  • Team
  • Baseball

• I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Paris

• Spangling the wave with lights as vainAs pleasures in the vale of pain,That dazzle as they fade.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Pain

• I understand your anger and outrage, I understand your pain. And yet in the self-interest of Gujarat, and to ensure that we don’t jeopardize the future of Gujarat, that Gujarat doesn’t get a blot on its face or carry a stigma connected with these times all the 5 crore Gujaratis need to keep calm and exercise self-restraint.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Future
  • Pain
  • Exercise

• Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • May
  • Deep

• The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Truth
  • Present
  • Opinion

• Make sure your work is never results-oriented. The result is a byproduct of the work, in a way.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Work

• Wireless technology is creating entrepreneurship on a small scale that allows a single woman to set up a business in a small village or a single farmer or fisherman to access and disseminate market information in order to get the best price for their products.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Up
  • Business
  • Small

• I was a thrower. I think I'm more of a pitcher now.

  

  Drew Pomeranz

• Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Future
  • Political
  • Trust

• When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic - or when you can scan a Shakespeare play for specific words or symbols - what opportunities might you miss to expand your thinking in unexpected ways?

  

  Christina Baker Kline
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Search

• The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.

  

  Ken Kesey
  • God

• Our national prosperity is built on our open borders. However, the reality is that if a points system is introduced in the UK it would be unavoidable for us in the Netherlands to implement similar proposals - and inevitable that many other EU countries would follow suit.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Reality

• Hey,” Shane said from the other side of the bars. “Trade you cigarettes for a chocolate bar.” Funny,” Eve said. She was almost back to her old unGothed self again, though there were still red splotches on her cheeks and around her eyes. “How come you’re always behind bars, troublemaker?” Look who’s talking. I didn’t try to outrun the cops in a hearse.” That hearse had horsepower.” Eve got that moony look in her eyes again. “I love that hearse.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Funny
  • Eyes

• I remember being told by my very first photographer that if I lost weight, and I was a skinny model, it would do wonders for my career. My mum got really defensive - 'I don't think we will be doing that, thank you so much, goodbye.'

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Remember
  • Career
  • Lost

• When we were making 'Toy Story,' my grandmother was very ill, and she knew she was not going to make it. I went back to visit her, and there was a moment during that visit that I had to say goodbye, and I knew I'd never be seeing her again. I looked at her and knew that I was looking at her for the last time.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • Time
  • She
  • Grandmother

• Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will.

  

  John Grogan
  • People
  • Family
  • Book

• Goodbye 2010. If you were a fish, I'd throw you back.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Goodbye