Nadia Comaneci Quotes

#1. Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

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#2. Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.

Rita Mae Brown

#3. I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission.

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#4. Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I began my career, I just wanted to do cartwheels.

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#5. Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.

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#6. Personally, I love the cookie monster grunts. I like how they alienate listeners. We sound the way we sound. We're individuals. We don't all like the same music. Everybody contributes their own influences, style, and history.

David Pajo

#7. Jump off the beam, flip off the bars follows your dreams, and reach for the stars

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#8. The only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

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#9. I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.

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#10. I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

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#11. It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.

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#12. I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

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#13. I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.

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#14. As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.

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#15. For some people life outside the spotlight is death.

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#16. We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

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#17. Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

Thomas Malthus

#18. Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.

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#19. If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy.

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#20. One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.

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#21. And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.

Poppy Z. Brite

#22. I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot

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#23. Nurture your own confidence and make it real; don't pretend to be someone you're not.

Tom Hiddleston

#24. Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

Aaron Eckhart

#25. There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

Hal Abelson

#26. BEG, v. To ask for something with an earnestness proportioned to the belief that it will not be given.

Ambrose Bierce

#27. She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.

Hans Christian Andersen

#28. I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

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#29. There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again.

M. Night Shyamalan

#30. When you fall, leap to your feet and try again.

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#31. These global warming studies [are] a bunch of snake oil science.

Sarah Palin

#32. My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

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#33. My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

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#34. 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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#35. Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

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