Gabby Douglas Quotes
You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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Habits change into character.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.
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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.
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You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.
