Nastia Liukin Quotes

I take it a little bit hard on myself because I'm comparing myself a lot, and that's the kind of person I am because I'm so competitive, but it's also good, because I am competitive, so it kind of kicks you in the butt.

Nastia Liukin

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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

Oriana Fallaci
- Girl
- Fighting
- Little
All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

Ugo Betti
- Giving
- Mad
- Name
My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

Aaron Sorkin
- Thinking
- Parents
- Sound
We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

Viggo Mortensen
- Live
- Done
- Day
Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

Saint Ambrose
- Nature
- Soul
- Earth
Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.

Sam Kean
- Pain
- Brain
- Feel