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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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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If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.
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It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.
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I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.
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My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people.
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I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'.
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All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
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I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.
