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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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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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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And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.
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The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.
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[Alex] Haley felt he could make a solid case in favor of racial integration by showing what was - to white America - what was the consequence of their support for racial separatism that would end up producing a kind of hate, the hate that hate produced, to use the phrase that Mike Wallace used in his 1959 documentary on the Nation of Islam.
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Richie is the only one of my nine who's really moved away. I can't get rid of most of them.
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For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
