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 don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Work
  • Past
  • Stop

• 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

• 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.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Dream
  • Interesting

• 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

• There is no schooling for fame and success. You learn as you walk.

  

  Corey Hart
  • Success

• I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Together

• Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Up
  • Happy

• The demonization of people who don't have a voice is particularly despicable, and the only thing we can do in our own little way is hold a mirror up to society and kind of say we're better than that.

  

  Liam Cunningham
  • People
  • Up
  • Society

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

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Tennis