Mary Lou Retton Quotes
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
Orison Swett Marden -
I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
Olivier Martinez -
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.
Ted Allen -
It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
Baltasar Kormakur -
Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
Fiona McIntosh
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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
Natalie Massenet -
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.
Uday Kotak -
What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
Salma Hayek -
I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
Rafael Nadal
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
Larry Page -
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
Karen Thompson Walker -
It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And in 'I'd Do Anything,' I've had so much support from folks back home, no matter what side they're on.
Rachel Tucker -
In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
Larry King -
The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
Patrick Dempsey
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It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.
Gabourey Sidibe -
I feel good when I come to Ahmedabad.
Ashish Sharma -
People always have to have a reference - I think I'll always be in the shadow of my parents.
Eliot Sumner -
So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.
Jim Harrison -
I can't see how You're leading me unless you've led me here, where I'm lost enough to let myself be led.
Rich Mullins -
Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.
Mary Lou Retton