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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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 think because of the eccentricity of my work and how I dress, people expect me to be bouncing off the walls. But that's just not how I am.
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The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.
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I wound up getting pulled into being a consultant on the Lifetime drama 'For the People.' The executive producer said, 'I want you to write scripts.' We sold pilots to a bunch of different networks.
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Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world.
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I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.
