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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Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
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I still believe that a plant-based diet has tremendous health benefits, but I have incorporated more animal protein into my diet. I found that my body personally got to a point where I needed something more.
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Copernicus never discusses matters of religion or faith, nor does he use argument that depend in any way upon the authority of sacred writings which he might have interpreted erroneously. ... He did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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David Sedaris is so good that it makes me mad.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
