Martina Navratilova Quotes
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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When you had thugs and bullies and killers imposing their will on their own people or other people - if you don't respond to it, it just keeps coming because they're encouraged by their own success.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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As long as offices are open to all men and no constitutional rank is established, it is pure republicanism.
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There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves.
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After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.
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I'm fully conscious all the time that I'm an American Negro, because it's part of my life. But I also know that if I want to say, 'I see a bus full of people,' I don't have to say, 'I am a Negro seeing a bus full of people.'
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.
