Martina Navratilova Quotes
After I retired, I was in Aspen, and after two months of being at home, I started to go nuts. I needed to go somewhere because that was the longest I never travelled.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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People should try to know God and imitate him in their works. Repetitions and ceremonials are of no use.
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You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.
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After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.
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I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.
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Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.
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After I retired, I was in Aspen, and after two months of being at home, I started to go nuts. I needed to go somewhere because that was the longest I never travelled.
