Tonya Harding Quotes

#1. I don't write a word of the article until I have the lead. It just sets the whole tone - the whole point of view. I know exactly where I'm going as soon as I have the lead.

Nora Ephron

#2. One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.

Tonya Harding

#3. My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.

Tonya Harding

#4. I like fighting, but I hate hurting people.

Tonya Harding

#5. The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset - that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#6. You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.

Thomas Hardy

#7. People are gonna believe what they want to believe And like I said before, I really don't give a damn.

Tonya Harding

#8. She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic.

Tonya Harding

#9. Truthfully I don't remember much about anything after the Olympics 'cause I, I lost everything.

Tonya Harding

#10. I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.

Naguib Mahfouz

#11. Awake. Reach out. Press onward.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

Tonya Harding

#13. The theory of animal rights simply is not consistent with the theory of animal welfare ... Animal rights means dramatic social changes for humans and non-humans alike; if our bourgeois values prevent us from accepting those changes, then we have no right to call ourselves advocates of animal rights.

Gary L. Francione

#14. Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me.

Tonya Harding

#15. I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.

Tonya Harding

#16. His devotion is complete; he is beginning to sense the confusion that arises from the first fears of what life would be like without her. He knows there can be such a thing, but like the answer to a difficult problem, he cannot imagine it.

James Salter

#17. Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice.

Bill Courtney

#18. What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?

Paulo Coelho

#19. I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.

Tonya Harding

#20. It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer.

Tonya Harding

#21. Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.

Gijs De Vries