"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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Source : Nadia Comaneci (2009). “Letters to a Young Gymnast”, p.16, Basic Books

Nadia Comaneci

#Dog Quotes #Mean Quotes #Careers Quotes

“The lesson to learn is to pay attention for 90 minutes because in front of you are great champions.”

Source : "Chelsea are banking on Italian job". cnn.com. October 21, 2003.
“The world laughs at another man's pain.”
“It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all this other stuff that I was able to capitalize on.”

Source : "Discovering Jeff Vespa". Interview with Jena Malone, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 14, 2014.
“I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next.”
“The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning,”

Source : Yehuda Amichai (2006). “Open Closed Open: Poems”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If you can be not afraidï»¿ to be laughed at, you could do so many things.”
“Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
“I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.”

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