Nadia Comaneci Quotes
I was turning actually 15 at the Olympics in '76... I don't think that one year makes a huge difference.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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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 really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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I don't like to run. You will not see me running on a treadmill ever. Ever! I like boxing, though, so if I can go to the gym and box for 30 minutes, I will.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.
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There hadn't been one done since the late 70s. I was living in Brooklyn, had no connection to Roger Corman, to no one in this movie. I didn't go to film school. I'm like the person who should have never made this film. But I just decided to put one foot in front of the other. I was writing film articles for magazines at the time. I convinced an editor from one of the magazines that I was working for to give me a shot to do a piece on Roger. This was an excuse to go meet him.
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My background was fairly conservative, and I think there's a strong notion of duty in a background like that, and I don't think that's always helpful.
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Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
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On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development.
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I was turning actually 15 at the Olympics in '76... I don't think that one year makes a huge difference.
