Mary Lou Retton Quotes
In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
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'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.
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Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!
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My dad was so much fun growing up.
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Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.
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Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
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In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.
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It's crazy because it's a British record and a personal best, but I wanted that 2 m. I cleared the 1.97 m. first attempt with space, so I think I could have done a little better.
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I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.
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Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.
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Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
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I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.
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Chopper Read attended a writing school I gave for inmates at Risdon Prison in Hobart many years ago. Even if I hadn't known about his hacked-off ears and his criminal history, I'd have found him powerful and compelling.
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What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
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'I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.'
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.
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I helped start a ceramics company called CPS Technologies. We took it public in 1987 at $12 a share. Three months later, there was this horrible cliff: Black Monday. Fidelity had bought 15 percent of our stock, and their algorithm caused them to dump it all onto the market that day. We dropped from $12 to $2.
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I'm not going to just fade out, I know.
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I am the only candidate for mayor of London with the experience of being a transport minister.
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It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.
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I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
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Why would you pass another law when the administration fails to enforce the current laws that are on the books. Why pass another one that's not going to be enforced either?
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In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.
