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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I have more engagement with New Zealand than people might think. Unlike the impression I have of the American president, who sits in the Oval Office and people come to them.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.
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'President (Truman) observed (that) 'to asure the Arabs that they would be consulted (prior to official US recognition of Israel) was by no means inconsistent with my generally sympathetic attitudes toward Jewish aspirations.' The Arabs may be forgiven for believing that this did not exactly state the inconsistency as they saw 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.
