Mary Lou Retton Quotes
For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
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At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.
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There are a bunch of places to stay in Des Moines, but I'd suggest finding a place on the west side of town. It's a great urban area that has a lot to offer tourists.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.
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The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.
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What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.
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In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.
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We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.
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The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.
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Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
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The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
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Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable.
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It's a waste to not say anything with art.
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Boyfriends? In my life I have had three. Three. Only a handful of people have seen into the Pharaoh's tomb.
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If any ask me what a free Government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.
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I remember being really shocked after Mellow Gold came out and going on tour, and all these kids were there. It totally disturbed me. Who are all these young people? I'd been playing Mississippi John Hurt covers in coffee shops to a bunch of thirty-, forty-, fifty-year olds. Then all of a sudden there were these teenagers.
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Why have your eyes gone into their own room?
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Nature loves simplicity and unity.
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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Forty years ago, my dad gave up a safe seat in Congress to run for governor and, finally, forty years later, we're gonna have a Larry Hogan in the governor's mansion.
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I know that people think I'm a party king; but, face it, if I finished the bottle every time I took a drink, I wouldn't be able to do the aerials I do onstage.
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For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
