Nadia Comaneci Quotes
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
Natalie Merchant -
Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
Ramez Naam -
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
Ralph Fiennes -
The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
Bart Stupak -
I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
Barry Mann
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams -
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
Kate Forsyth -
I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
You don't fight ideas with bombs.
Hamza Yusuf -
I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.
Dakota Johnson
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My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.
Felicity Jones -
Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
Kate Christensen -
People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
Kate Winslet -
We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
Captain Beefheart -
I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.
Natalie Massenet -
How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.
Walid Jumblatt
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I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
Bill Nye -
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
Emil Cioran -
I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
J. Paul Getty -
A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
Mads Mikkelsen -
I am just trying to live for my kids. It is all about my kids now. I love them endlessly.
Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries -
Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.
Nadia Comaneci