Nadia Comaneci Quotes

Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.

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• No one expected me to become a champion.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Me
  • Champion
  • Become

• When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Time
  • Why
  • Today

• A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Every idea has its time.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Time
  • Idea
  • Every

• Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Risk

• A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Time
  • Work
  • Funny

• If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.

  

  Usher
  • Life
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  • Rose

• My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Weird

• I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.

  

  Eavan Boland
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• Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.

  

  Madeline Zima
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• All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Want
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  • Choose

• My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Live
  • Children

• I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I was on MTV's 'Real World' at the time when 'Queer Eye' came out. I remember, the first time I won an award, I got the award, and they were like, 'It's a tie! With 'Queer Eye!'' I never thought that I would one day follow in their footsteps.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • Time
  • World
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• I never really had any God at all, just an imagined one, an inherited ghost.

  

  Erik Fosnes Hansen
  • Ghost

• I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

  

  Lionel Jospin

• The biggest thing about me, as an actor, is I'm never a finished product, you know? I always want to try something or be in a new genre because, one, it's much more fun to do that because you're not doing the same thing over and over.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Fun

• I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Genius
  • Worked
  • Casey Stengel

• Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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