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

• 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
  • Feeling
  • You
  • 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

• Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Time
  • Military

• 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.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.

  

  Ann Beattie
  • Time
  • Long
  • Business

• In addition to being the most beautiful score I have ever sung, 'Piazza' gave me the opportunity to honor the matriarchs of my Southern family.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Family
  • Beautiful
  • Opportunity

• For me, I look at a pilot and go, 'I see the landscape. I see the characters. I see the direction and the potential of the story.' And I also go, 'That didn't work. I could change that. Maybe that works. I don't know. We'll see.' For me, I look at it, as an actor, as what can I improve upon?

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Work

• President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Home
  • Texas

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

  

  Mary Lou Retton