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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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.
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What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!
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Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.
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We think we receive all that we perceive, but in fact, we actually give the sky its colour.
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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.
