Nadia Comaneci Quotes
It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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The spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield.
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Nobody needs a mink coat but the mink.
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It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.
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Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it's probably higher than that.
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If you convert to Islam after a couple of decades of being a black man in the U.S., the discrimination you receive as a Muslim doesn't feel like a shock.
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
