Mary Lou Retton Quotes
As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.
Quotes to Explore
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Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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I love basketball.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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I definitely would not do a reality show.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.
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They hate whom they fear.
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My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.
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We have a double agenda of trying to deliver something exciting that people will talk about and will brighten their day and will amaze people and make us proud to have created an object of beauty. And on the other hand being true to the story.
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In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.
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But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart? Certainly not those who expect from it only decorous sentiments and normal emotions.
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I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.
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You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.
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As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.
