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.Gabby Douglas
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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.
J. C. Chandor -
College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
Barbara Mikulski -
Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.
P. J. O'Rourke -
In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
Frances McDormand -
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken -
The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
Laura Linney
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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.
Fatema Mernissi -
It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
Gabrielle Aplin -
I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
Ian McShane -
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.
Orlando Bloom -
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.
Zoey Deutch -
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
Kara Lindsay -
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.
Patrick Dempsey -
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.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
Randy Quaid -
I'm proud of my work and how far I've come, and I'm proud of the way that I did it.
Bebe Rexha -
Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions, and all countries have a legal obligation to freeze its assets and prohibit its business dealings. But countries around the world need to do more to make these sanctions work.
Samantha Power
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It's very easy to keep putting off having a family if you enjoy your job, but you just have to get on with life.
Keeley Hawes -
The beautiful image today means nothing. It's worthshit. In fact, it's almost as if it has the opposite effect, becauseyou're just like everything else out there.
Wim Wenders -
We came into this week thinking this was going to be a really tough game, ... We knew they'd be excited, which they were, and our plan was to take it to them early. That is what we did.
Lewis Cass -
If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.'
Barbara Corcoran -
It doesn't dampen my enthusiasm. It's just an annoyance. It seems like the better you're doing, the more that happens. If nothing's going on, nobody cares.
Robby Krieger The Doors -
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.
Gabby Douglas