Nadia Comaneci Quotes
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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I like to go shopping, to the movies, all the girl stuff. Just a normal girl.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
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The best zoom lens is your legs.
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I live in Nashville, and I don't know how many people there would call me country. I really started in punk and anti-folk, but one of the reasons I originally gravitated towards country music is because most of those songs only use three chords. That was the easiest place for me to start, but I'm always trying to expand what I do.
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Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
