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'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
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Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
