Martina Navratilova Quotes

The Czech tennis federation wasn't holding me back, but they could still pull the plug anytime they wanted.

Martina Navratilova

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• But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Ambition

• I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Try
  • Possible
  • Risks

• What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Up
  • Country
  • Community

• I've learned never say never.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Never
  • Say
  • Learned

• In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Winning
  • Years
  • Independence

• I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • History
  • End
  • Conflict

• I've learned, after 18 years of gathering information, to eat, then check in with my body - how do I feel? I've learned to eat whatever makes my body feel good. As a teenager, I was just so confused, overwhelmed by all the information.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • Good
  • Body
  • Information

• We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Community
  • Cricket

• Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Early
  • Others
  • Accuracy

• I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Friends
  • Same
  • Kindergarten

• This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Want
  • Fear

• Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Happiness

• More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Good
  • Women
  • Space

• I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Know
  • Never

• I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key

• Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Reality
  • Perception

• This isn't a Republican issue. This isn't a Democrat issue. This is something that both parties and people around the country have agreed to. They don't want Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • People
  • Country

• All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Travel
  • Ignorance

• I realize that, to many readers, Hard Fantasy may seem to be a contradiction in terms. Fantasy, according to most generally recognized definitions, differs from both 'real world' fiction and 'science fiction' in that magic or magical creatures are active elements.

  

  Jane Lindskold
  • World
  • Real
  • May

• You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Mother
  • Wish
  • Single

• People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

  

  Mary Wesley
  • People
  • Work
  • Marriage

• Most of the energy consumed is for heating, cooling, and transport. By massively deploying green gas, we could decarbonize all that.

  

  Isabelle Kocher
  • Energy
  • Gas
  • Transport

• The Czech tennis federation wasn't holding me back, but they could still pull the plug anytime they wanted.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Tennis