Mary Lou Retton Quotes
That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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I do watch a lot of YouTube.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I liked animals better than people. That's one of the reasons I wanted to be a vet - then I found out that every pet had a person that owned 'em.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.
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George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.
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Is it not worrying in itself that European Christianity is now barely able to keep Europe Christian? If we lose sight of this, the idea of Europe could become a minority interest in its own continent.
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'Brotherhood of the Wolf' is a very important movie because it represents something new. The director Christophe Gans came up with the idea of taking a French legend and making it some kind of really strange, almost Chinese action movie. The result is something that I haven't seen anywhere before.
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The U.N. might not be the most luxurious place to work, but it certainly is one of the most important places in the world.
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I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream.
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It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.
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I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
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My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.
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I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.
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My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.
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There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.
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When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
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I'm a hard worker and I really give to my fans through my shows.
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When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes.
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The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
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You cannot imagine how wearisome existence grows, alone and immortal.
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That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.
