Mary Lou Retton Quotes

For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.

Mary Lou Retton

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BagBedBreadYearsPlasticMedals

It may be a cliche, but cliche or not, I fear the day when the only marsh harriers or peregrines I can look at are in paintings by Joseph Wolf or Bruno Liljefors - and no matter how beautiful those works may be, life is the great thing: life, life, life.

John Burnside

LifeFearBeautifulGreatDayWolf

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

GoodFoolsNeverGood FortuneUnited

I eat chicken and rice, steak, and baked potato. That's it.

Ronnie Coleman

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When I was young and getting bullied at school and really not feeling like I would amount to much and staying isolated, my mom used to say to me a lot about how you treat people and always having dignity and respect.

Ruby Rose

RespectSchoolPeopleMeMomTreat

Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.

Louise Gluck

FutureKnowledgePresentArtistWill

I believe I'm better looking as a dude than a girl.

Liza Koshy

GirlLookingBelieveBetterDude

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.

Jason Marsden

ReadingThinkYouPersonImportant

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

Dixie Lee Ray

GovernmentEnvironmentalGoalClean

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

Bonnie Bassler

LearningSciencePeopleThinkHelp

I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.

Arjun Rampal

MemoryYouBodyRoutineBackKnow

The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the respect of one's peers means more.

Pierce Brosnan

GoodRespectMeActorMoreMean

Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.

Richard Roeper

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