Mary Lou Retton Quotes
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.
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I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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Imagine if everyone was able to help just one child who needs to be listened to, needs to be respected, and needs to be loved - we could make such a huge difference for an entire generation.
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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I am a fantastic nurse. I discovered this about myself, and I'm really fantastic about diagnosing things.
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When Photoshop came around, I thought I'd died and went to heaven. When I hear artists say, 'Oh, the good old days' or 'I'm old school,' I just want to puke. There's no tool I won't use.
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I'm constantly working towards my personal improvement.
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The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.
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I hope to be an actor and never retire.
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The endorsement game has been very good to me.
