Mary Lou Retton Quotes

That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals.

Mary Lou Retton

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I started off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, and started doing theater in Manhattan in 1969.

Joe Morton

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We have to make bureaucracy sexy.

Jennifer Pahlka

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The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.

Jenny McCarthy

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I'm proud to be a Cardinal.

Stan Musial

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I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.

Steven Pinker

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I am president of Russian Standard Company, biggest luxury vodka in Russia. My bank, Russian Standard Bank, issues biggest number of credit cards in Russia. I want for Russian people to have their own best vodka, their own best bank, their own best credit card.

Roustam Tariko

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I'm terrible at solving things. I'm really bad and haven't got any sort of lateral thinking capacity. I am your perfect audience for a mystery. I love that kind of stuff. I'm always on the edge of my seat.

Julia Sawalha

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I believe that music is about making quality things, making quality art, and no matter who you decide to work with, you and that person have to come up with something special, come up with something that is excellent material, so whoever hears it and reviews it will like it.

Common

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I read 'The Crystal Cave' book by Mary Stewart, and I thought it was a really, really interesting part of the legend, in which Merlin could enter into the cave with these crystals and see reflections of the future in them and learn how to use that and harness those powers for himself.

Colin Morgan

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Show me one single patriot who has ever been in Barack Obama's life in any position of influence. You can't do it... Barack Obama detests this nation as founded. He has zero respect for the founding documents.

Brad Thor

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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off.

Petter Stordalen

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