Martina Navratilova Quotes
People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? You can't take it with you. The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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 have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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I don't have a TV, and I don't have a radio.
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Exercise is important, but exercise in a gym is not important. Go and take a walk outside. Skip the umpteenth coffee date and go for a hike instead. Take the stairs. Walk your errands.
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What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.
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Manic depression is a type of depression, technically, and it's the opposite of uni-polar. Manic depression is also called bi-polar disorder. Some people don't like to call it that because they think it makes it sound too nice, when the reality is if you have manic-depression you have manic-depression.
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People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? You can't take it with you. The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.
