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.

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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.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Feeling
  • Woman
  • Pity

• 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.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Easy

• I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Family
  • Together
  • Parents

• At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • You
  • First
  • Reservations

• Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Up
  • Will
  • Traffic

• Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Children
  • Again
  • Seen

• I love basketball.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Love
  • Basketball
  • I Love

• 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.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• 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.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• 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.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • School
  • High
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Political
  • Culture
  • City

• I definitely would not do a reality show.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Would

• My idea of fast food is a mallard.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Food
  • Idea
  • Fast

• Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Time
  • You

• 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.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Pretty
  • Powerful
  • Feel

• They hate whom they fear.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Whom

• My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Style

• Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

  

  Maurice Saatchi
  • Time
  • Great
  • Nature

• The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Man
  • Violence
  • Victory

• The lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook are unparalleled natural treasures with some of the highest water quality in Connecticut.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Water
  • Quality
  • River

• Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Earth
  • Funny

• There's no choice left in America anymore. Anything that's authentic and genuine, anything that grew out of any sense of tradition, is wiped out. We're left with this bland monoculture that's swept over the whole country.

  

  Terry Zwigoff
  • Country
  • Choices
  • Tradition

• 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.

  

  Mary Lou Retton
  • Simple
  • Choices