Mary Lou Retton Quotes
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We're a nation of celebrity and hero worshipers, so much so that we make heroes out of those who aren't, such as John Wayne: a patriotic, red-blooded, two-fisted American who spent the Second World War in the trenches on the movie lots of Hollywood.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.
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I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles.
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There's no reason that there has to be a fringe network that illuminates an urban or a multiethnic experience.
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I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.
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When 'Teen Vogue' started out, 'Teen Vogue' was an aspirational fashion magazine for fashion lovers. You know, it was the little sister to 'Vogue.' And over the years, we've realized that our mission was really to become more focused on making this an inclusive community that speaks to every kind of young person.
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What I do miss is the Jersey Shore.
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Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.
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I had to find my own terms for success, and it wasn't anything like what I was told to do.
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Breaking records has never been my goal. I think it's important that we're continually pushing our limits and showing that we can extend beyond what we have done before.
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The album cover of 'Death of a Bachelor' is me on my roof of my backyard, so that's my place where I spend most of my time writing.
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But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.
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I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.
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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
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Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent.
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It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.
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Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started with this just seed.
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What we need is competition for places. We are certainly trying to engender that. When we name the final squad you could find that yes there might be a few established players left out of the squad. We'll find that out over the next two or three weeks.
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Our sovereignty does not come from Brussels-it is ours by right and by heritage.
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I think 'Shark Tank' is targeting companies that are really trying to raise their very first dollar. A lot of them aren't really tech focused. We're definitely going after companies that are building real technology, either software or hardware, they probably have raised a couple hundred thousand already.
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Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.
