Mary Lou Retton Quotes

As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.

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• Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Balance

• My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Idea
  • Stand
  • Three

• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Career
  • College
  • Class

• I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Life
  • Different
  • Soul

• In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Garden
  • Germany
  • Bag

• If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.

  

  Walter Lang
  • People
  • Money
  • Earth

• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Process

• Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • More
  • Upset
  • Far

• I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Truth

• I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Media

• We just here to do our job.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Job
  • Just
  • Here

• I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.

  

  Kaki King
  • Music
  • Color
  • Red

• I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Up
  • World
  • Creative

• The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Live
  • Greatest

• The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • American
  • Government
  • Politics

• I am not afraid to go to jail.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Afraid
  • Jail

• There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Missing

• If you look at the Qur'an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are so brilliant and transparent that no darkness, no misguidance, no doubt or suspicion, no trickery could enter it or find a fissure through which to enter and violate its purity.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Heart
  • Eyes
  • Doubt

• The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Art

• I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Life

• So, when the last and dreadful HourThis crumbling Pageant shall devour,The trumpet shall be heard on high,The dead shall live, the living die,And musick shall untune the Sky.

  

  John Dryden
  • Live
  • High
  • Die

• Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Book
  • Career
  • Feel

• I don't really like being emotional. Public displays of emotion, I don't really do that sort of stuff. I don't know why. I would like to be the type that doesn't worry about that.

  

  Mark Viduka
  • Why
  • Worry
  • Emotional

• As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter.

  

  Mary Lou Retton
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  • Pretty