Nadia Comaneci Quotes

I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

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• I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Know

• When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • See

• Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Men
  • Tragedy
  • Rejection

• The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Way
  • First
  • Champion

• I would love to do some theater.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Some

• Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Life
  • Love
  • Happy

• Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Game
  • Free
  • Difference

• I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Time
  • Place
  • Obsessed

• Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Time
  • Spirit
  • Genius

• I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Chocolate
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Interested
  • I Was Raised

• I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Different
  • Animal
  • Sick

• I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Parents

• My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • She
  • Smart
  • Sister

• I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Up
  • War
  • Culture

• Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bad
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Marriage
  • Write
  • How

• Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Free

• Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.

  

  Ann Powers
  • Music
  • Practice

• I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Cool

• Honestly, 'Battlestar' is a truly unique thing, and it's hard for anything to step up to that. There aren't often shows that are as good as that.

  

  Tahmoh Penikett
  • Up
  • Good
  • Unique

• I'm lucky to play Elektra. So far, it's the most exciting part I've ever had to play. I've done the physicality a bit before, and I enjoy it.

  

  Elodie Yung
  • Done

• I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Good
  • Done
  • Win