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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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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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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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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If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.
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I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.
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At least I had that, one guy understood me.
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I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.
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Every moment is the paradox of now or never.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
