Martina Navratilova Quotes

There was a joke in Czechoslovakia: The Communist Party dance, it's one step forward, two steps backward, and everyone is still clapping.

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• The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • People
  • Kids
  • Opportunity

• I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Mind
  • Changes
  • Drink

• I'm a proud family man.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Family
  • Man
  • Proud

• The stratosphere is a hostile place.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Place
  • Hostile
  • Stratosphere

• You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Year

• Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Great
  • Impact

• Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Democracy
  • Form
  • Worship

• I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Gift

• I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Like

• Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Common
  • Anti-Semitism

• Life is too short to be on a diet.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Life
  • Life Is Too Short

• Humor is an antidote to all ills.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Humor
  • Antidote
  • Ills

• We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.

  

  Gary Player
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Thoughts

• I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Real
  • Team
  • Learning

• There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • People
  • Great
  • Hero

• People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.

  

  Warren Giles
  • People
  • War
  • Political

• We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • World
  • Believe
  • Long

• There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

  

  David Harvey
  • Political
  • Wall

• The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

  

  Frederick M. Vinson
  • Free
  • Answers
  • Policy

• I'm for anything that teaches consideration and kindness. If one can teach one's son to dance with the ugliest little girl in the room, that's the best lesson they can ever learn.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • Girl
  • Dance
  • Son

• We want everybody to get rich. The Republican Party is often called unloving, uncaring, not generous, or whatever - that's a bunch of baloney. We're the party that believes in free markets.

  

  Dave Brat
  • Free
  • Party

• There was a joke in Czechoslovakia: The Communist Party dance, it's one step forward, two steps backward, and everyone is still clapping.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Party
  • Dance