Martina Navratilova Quotes
I really couldn't come out until after I got my citizenship, because it was a disclaim - back then, it could have been a disqualifier. I could have been denied my U.S. citizenship because I was gay. So I didn't - I stayed quiet.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.
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He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
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Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk
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People are just like farm equipment. They rust out quicker than they wear out.
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The White House admitted that Vice President Biden's endorsement of gay marriage forced him to come out in favor of it. So in a related story millions of Americans are trying to get Biden hooked on pot.
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I really couldn't come out until after I got my citizenship, because it was a disclaim - back then, it could have been a disqualifier. I could have been denied my U.S. citizenship because I was gay. So I didn't - I stayed quiet.
