Nadia Comaneci Quotes

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

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• I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
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  • Author

• Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
  • Know
  • Perfect

• I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Why
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• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Love
  • Perfect

• I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Love
  • Honest

• The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Remember
  • Never
  • Forget

• I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Remember
  • First
  • Race

• Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Remember
  • Movies
  • Moment

• The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Money
  • Nobody

• Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Long
  • Remember
  • You

• One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Power
  • Trust

• The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • People
  • Important
  • Design

• It's human nature to want to be with other people.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Nature
  • Want

• Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Fish

• I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Hope
  • Opinion

• This is the very contrary of dropping out. Most people can't wait to get home to their house or apartment and shut that door and turn on the TV. To me, that's dropping out.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • People
  • Home
  • House

• We opened the first Men's Wearhouse in Houston in August 1973, then a store a year for 10 years in Texas. In the early 1980s I opened a store in the San Francisco Bay Area. Within the year, the Texas economy was in total disarray. We were facing Chapter 11, and if not for the California store, we might not have survived.

  

  George Zimmer
  • Economy
  • Store
  • Survived

• I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Work
  • Mistakes
  • Ship

• In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

  

  Aleksandar Hemon
  • Literature

• Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Remember
  • Perfect