Mary Lou Retton Quotes

For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.

Mary Lou Retton

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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.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • End
  • Realize

• The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Great
  • Finding
  • West

• 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.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • You
  • Feeling
  • Faith

• A Constitution should be short and obscure.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Constitution
  • Short
  • Obscure

• Keep your elbows soft. Keep your elbows looking fine.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Looking
  • Fine
  • Soft

• 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.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• 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.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Forever

• In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Sharing

• 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.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • World
  • Work
  • Improvement

• 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.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • People
  • Education
  • Hand

• Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Friends
  • Party
  • Libertarian

• The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Very

• Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • New
  • Going
  • Bring

• Nuclear terrorism is possible - it may be probable - but is survivable.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • May
  • Possible
  • Terrorism

• It's a waste to not say anything with art.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Say
  • Waste

• Boyfriends? In my life I have had three. Three. Only a handful of people have seen into the Pharaoh's tomb.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Life

• 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.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Free
  • Purpose

• Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Together
  • Forever
  • Audience

• I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Desire

• When I'm bored or tired of being blonde, I'll throw on a wig. It's a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10 - all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Different
  • Long
  • Tired

• With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.

  

  Burke Marshall
  • Respect
  • Army
  • Drug

• For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.

  

  Mary Lou Retton