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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I don't care about revenues.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite a few elderly farmers and put me in touch with four or five of them who had been in camps during WWII. Some, like my father, were reluctant to talk about their experiences.
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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
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When I was writing about Gotham in 'Broken City,' I was writing about Chicago. I just substituted the names.
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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.
