Gabby Douglas Quotes
Everyone was telling me you have this great potential and you can be on top. I didn't believe that, but everyone was just telling me to believe in myself. I did and I'm kind of up on top and it's amazing.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.
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Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
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I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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I learned that I truly am a fighter and that I cannot give up.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.
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The Steelers run a great organization.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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I'm a guy of 92kg. I haven't got the physique of someone who can work back and then sprint up front again throughout a match!
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I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers.
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You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.
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My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
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I have no great message to the world.
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I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element, and you don't know what it will be, and it's up to that other person's energy to help create this third thing.
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They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.
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I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when II've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority. was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.
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In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.
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Everyone was telling me you have this great potential and you can be on top. I didn't believe that, but everyone was just telling me to believe in myself. I did and I'm kind of up on top and it's amazing.
