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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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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Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
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I certainly don't want to have too many pre-conceived notions before I show up because then you might be cutting yourself off from the real lessons of what is going on.
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I feel like my whole life, I've had to prove myself to so many people because I'm young and because I'm a female; it's just constant. I'm always surprising people.
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Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.
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We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
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“You are not alone if you are lonely, When you feel afraid, you're not the only.”
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For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
