Nadia Comaneci Quotes
In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.Nadia Comaneci
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
Fat Joe -
Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
Larry Hagman -
I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
Aaron Douglas -
Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
Ian Thorpe
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
J. J. Abrams -
We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
Facundo Pieres -
My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
Olivia Williams -
There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
G. Willow Wilson -
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke -
I am not looking for a life partner right now. But if I've to list out the requirements, I have a huge list. But the first requirement is he should be tall and should be taller than me; even I wear heels.
Rakul Preet Singh
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
Laraine Day -
Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
Olympia Dukakis -
If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.
Jack Kingston -
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
Iris Chang -
I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
Bainbridge Colby -
I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
Orson Welles
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On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., there are statues of five Confederate luminaries and then, incongruously in this company, one of Arthur Ashe.
Frank Deford -
No matter what he does, one always forgives him. It does not depend upon looks, either – although this actual person is abominably good-looking – it does not depend upon intelligence or character or – anything – as you say, it is just 'it'.
Elinor Glyn -
This professor standing before you was once a doctor, and by force of circumstance was obliged to take up arms, and after two years graduated as a guerrilla commander.
Che Guevara -
Just be nice to people and be someone people want to work with because if people don't like working with you it's just not going to work out.
Gigi Hadid -
Diligence, hard work, foresight, entrepreneurship and God's blessing.
Imelda Marcos -
In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
Nadia Comaneci