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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I believe strongly in 'giving while living.' I see little reason to delay giving when so much good can be achieved through supporting worthwhile causes today. Besides, it's a lot more fun to give while you live than to give while you are dead.
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I love being a mom. It's my favorite thing. If I had to give up everything and just be a mom, I would.
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I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.
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The father is the head of the home; the mother is the heart of the home; the children are the reward, the joy and the life of the home.
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I never get involved with the ladies I work with.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
