Mary Lou Retton Quotes
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.
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Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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If we can find a way to keep floodwater in reserve and to use it when it's needed, it will be a double boon.
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Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.
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Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.
