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.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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I'm a proud family man.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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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.
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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.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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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.
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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.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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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.
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I do think it's possible to change for the better.
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Many premature babies are never given a chance to make it out of the hospital.
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I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.
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Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
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I love getting out of the Q train at Union Square. It's such a mix of people, like a party. There's always an errand you can do along there, whether it's picking up contacts or buying poker chips.
Colson Whitehead -
There was a joke in Czechoslovakia: The Communist Party dance, it's one step forward, two steps backward, and everyone is still clapping.
