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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Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.
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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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I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.
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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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The universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological.
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Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.
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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 each according to his threat advantage does not count as a principle of justice.
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.
