Nadia Comaneci Quotes
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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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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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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I had an Indiana Jones fedora that I loved. I don't know what happened to it. I don't know where it went. Wish I had it back. Whoever's got it, you suck.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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I have a great office.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I had a fabulous childhood. Not many people have an outdoor tennis court that you're allowed to put your ponies on and pretend you're at Hickstead.
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Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against the celebrity culture that wants to say: 'this is a genius, this is one person who has done something brilliant.' There are always a hundred people in the background who have helped to make it.
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I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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The 1950s is my favourite era.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
