Gabby Douglas Quotes
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
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We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.
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I'm a pretty tenacious person; I get that from my mom. So sometimes, I use dark humor. I can't take myself too seriously.
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My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.
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Phoenix and Las Vegas have grim long-term prospects. On top of oil-and-gas problems, they will have terrible problems with water and the ability to produce food locally. I suppose it shows how delusional the public is, and how our institutional controls have decayed - for instance, lending standards.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
