Nadia Comaneci Quotes
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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President Obama is a utopian at heart. He wants to improve the lives of the downtrodden, which is a good thing. But, he doesn't understand that damaging the free marketplace in pursuit of 'social justice' will eventually harm those whom he wants to help. The nation's crushing debt is a tsunami brewing off shore.
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If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
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The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.
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The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.
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The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.
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I wanted to have a free life.
