Gabby Douglas Quotes
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.
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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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I travel with chocolate - Godiva with caramel. When the craving hits, I have to have it. I share, but if I'm on my last one, I've been known to say, 'Sorry, I'm out!'
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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All seed except Mary was vitiated by original sin.
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The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
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Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
