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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With the Democrats, they see themselves, we see ourselves as the party of the working folks, the striving, you know, the good. But, without anybody acknowledging it, there is now this little camp of folks who come across as very elitist, that look down on red state voters, who think that Republicans are dumb people.
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Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.
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I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.
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I'm always thinking if I'm not doing something to get ahead in life, someone else is doing it.
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If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.
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Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.
