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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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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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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I love how Vietnamese cuisine always tastes like flowers, and how they had the ingenious idea of pairing that floral flavor with seafood: such a combination shouldn't work as well as it does.
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I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.
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Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to 'Twitter' transatlantically.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
