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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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.
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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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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.
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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'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.
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Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.
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Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it
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All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.
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A. L. Vijay asked if I could dance, and I just said yes. I didn't tell him the only dancing I had done was on nights out in Liverpool. He said he would arrange workshops and help me with the scripts and the language. He liked the fact that I was English but had an Indian look.
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For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
