Nadia Comaneci Quotes
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'
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I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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If you can write it, I can be it.
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Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.
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Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.
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I got into a lot of fights, but it wasn't because of my name. Being from the neighborhood with a name like Chauncey, people think I got picked on. But a lot of strange names come out of the neighborhood.
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I'm going to do anything I can to be there and support any organization that empowers and creates opportunities for women.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.