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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My record speaks for itself.
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My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.
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When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.
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I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
