Mary Lou Retton Quotes

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

Mary Lou Retton

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BestSimpleChoicesPersonTryBeen

While the books I read as a child lacked diversity in the strict sense, they didn't lack values. Reading, I didn't see me externally, but I felt me - my humanity.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

DiversityChildMeReadingHumanity

Ingredients should not read like a chemistry experiment!

Jessica Capshaw

ChemistryExperimentIngredientsLike

I think you kind of lose the human aspect when you make things too perfect.

Jenny Lewis

ThinkYouLosePerfectKindHuman

Mel Blanc has been gone for 30 years, even though he's still around.

John Kricfalusi

YearsGoneBeenStillEvenHe

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

Robert Morgan

TimeUnexpectedYouPowerfulChoice

The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.

John Pistole

TechnologyLightBestSecurityEnemy

Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.

Simon Wiesenthal

MyselfI AmSurvivalI CanPrivilege

People say you have to know when to retire, which is a dumb thing to say. If you want to go out on top, yeah, it becomes important when you quit. But I wasn't afraid of that. And I wasn't worried about getting fired. I knew the risk. To me, it's not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.

Tom Landry

PeopleMeEgoEnjoyYouDumb

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

Robert Baden-Powell

TrustTrainingMoralOurShould

Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families.

Jonathan Sacks

TodayCommunityWorldYouMoreTurn

Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, was kind to his children, generally helpful to juniors, authentically curious about the news, and, in his time, an energetic reporter.

Conrad Black

ChildrenTimeManCuriousFlyNews

Cervical cancer doesn't discriminate by how much money you have. The disease affects so many - it's frightening.

Peta Todd

MoneyYouCancerDiseaseAffects

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