Gabby Douglas Quotes
Words can't even describe how much Olympic medals means to me, because of all the hard work, sacrifice and effort I put in at the gym, and also because of how much my family supported me and sacrificed their dreams for mine. It also means a lot to me, knowing that I became the first African American to win the individual all-around gold medal.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
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The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
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Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
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I'm not going to give up salt and sugar because I want to look like Adriana Lima. But I am going to work out to make myself feel good in my own body.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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I'm proud of my work and how far I've come, and I'm proud of the way that I did it.
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Any person I idolise, or I really admire their work, I want to beat them... For me, going through my years, I made sure to idolise myself... So when you're in a race, you have to make sure that you think you are the favourite to win. You have to have that confidence.
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I love the market, it is my work, my play and my life.
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My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.
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Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.
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I've been complimented enough and asked to run for various offices out here in Utah, but right now, I'm not interested. I don't know that I have the stomach for it.
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Words can't even describe how much Olympic medals means to me, because of all the hard work, sacrifice and effort I put in at the gym, and also because of how much my family supported me and sacrificed their dreams for mine. It also means a lot to me, knowing that I became the first African American to win the individual all-around gold medal.
