Martina Navratilova Quotes
The Czech tennis federation wasn't holding me back, but they could still pull the plug anytime they wanted.
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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.
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I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.
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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.
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I've learned never say never.
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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.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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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.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.
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I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
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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.
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If your dream is to tell stories, interesting stories, play interesting people, that's the bottom line. The people that I play have to be extraordinary.
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Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
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More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.
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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.
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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.
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I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.
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I thought maybe I should write or study law. I even had the idea to open a flower shop. But I was so fascinated with film, I couldn't stay away.
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Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.
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Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
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You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.
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I think, as musicians, our music should be who we are. Sometimes it's not - it's someone else's. All heartfelt music and all honest music, it's who we are. Of course, our upbringing has everything to do with it.
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The Czech tennis federation wasn't holding me back, but they could still pull the plug anytime they wanted.
