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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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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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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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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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.
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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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Before the show, there's about two or two and a half hours of meet and greets with radio stations, promoters, people who I need to see and thank and talk to to make sure they remember me. And then, I get - out of all that day of talking and smiling and shaking hands and getting photos, I get to sing for two hours.
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I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can weave these American Gothic fairytales. I feel like I sound inauthentic when I do that, so I tend to write from a personal standpoint.
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Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
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My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?
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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.'
