Gabby Douglas Quotes

For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start coming to the gymnastics world and say 'okay, anything is possible. If Gabby did it, then I can do it too.'

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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

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• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

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• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

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• My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.

  

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• Social revolutions are never simple.

  

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• Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.

  

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• I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.

  

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• Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

  

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• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

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• I got to write most of everything I said.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
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• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  

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• I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.

  

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• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

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• It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.

  

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• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

  

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• During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.

  

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• I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

  

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  • Work
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• I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.

  

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• One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

  

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  • Strange
  • Negative
  • Publicity

• For me going down in history being the first black American to win the gold, I think more colored people are going to start coming to the gymnastics world and say 'okay, anything is possible. If Gabby did it, then I can do it too.'

  

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