Gabby Douglas Quotes
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby.
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Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'
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I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.
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You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.
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You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.
