Nadia Comaneci Quotes
Romania doesn't have a big tradition of gymnastics as a fun activity. We were a little behind in this aspect.
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.
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That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
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Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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My parents have tried not to intrude. They kind of stayed apart from my gymnastics but are very supportive, and that's very helpful as a gymnast to not have your parents say, 'Did you do this today?' and just be very on top of you.
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We did a thing that we would call we call 'hirstories.' H - I - R - S - T - O - R - Y. I would enact a young Mort. And that always felt - it was so funny - it felt more difficult than playing Maura.
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There's Doom Patrol, which is the world's strangest superheroes, and they're making their return.
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And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.
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I really liked the idea of playing - I won't say the underdog - but characters who have a lot of conflict.
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Romania doesn't have a big tradition of gymnastics as a fun activity. We were a little behind in this aspect.
