Gabby Douglas Quotes

Serena Williams [ispires me]. The first time I met her, she was like, "We should hang out and go to dinner," and I'm like, "Uh, yeah! If you insist."

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• When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • World
  • Words

• The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • Support

• Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Art
  • Looking

• A man is what he thinks about all day long.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Man
  • Day

• If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Know
  • Path
  • New

• Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

  

  Larry King
  • School
  • Ahead
  • Graduated

• I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • See
  • England
  • Wreck

• There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Image

• And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

  

  Larry David
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Version

• I eat a lot of chocolate.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Chocolate
  • Eat
  • Lot

• The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Alone
  • Media
  • Social Media

• Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Leadership
  • Ever
  • Replace

• I don't have many friends.

  

  Larry David
  • Friends
  • Many

• Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• How you manage change can make all the difference.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • You
  • Change
  • Difference

• Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Children

• No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Mother
  • Father
  • White

• Living in a system under the Communist ideology, an artist cannot avoid fighting for freedom of expression. You always have to be aware that art is not only a self-expression but a demonstration of human rights and dignity. To express yourself freely, a right as personal as it is, has always been difficult, given the political situation.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Art
  • Political
  • Freedom

• Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

  

  Diogenes
  • Wise

• Every year, my mom makes sure I have my checkups and everything, which is probably a really good idea. She's great with all that health stuff.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Good
  • Great
  • She

• If after a reasonable time passes it becomes clear that the PA (Palestinian Authority) is not willing to accept these principles, we will need to begin to act.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Time
  • Act
  • Principles

• Serena Williams [ispires me]. The first time I met her, she was like, "We should hang out and go to dinner," and I'm like, "Uh, yeah! If you insist."

  

  Gabby Douglas
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