Nadia Comaneci Quotes
I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
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So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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Love is, without question life's greatest experience.
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I was going to be a writer. One person believed I could do it: my mom. Having her faith in me was like carrying around the Hammer of Thor.
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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 don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
