Gabby Douglas Quotes
I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
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I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
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God put a cross between you and hell. If you want to go to hell, you will have to crawl over the cross of Jesus.
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I know better than anyone else that my time is near. I've had a good life, and you don't stop and complain at this stage of the game. I've made some mistakes, and I'd like to stay around a little longer and overcome them, but there isn't time. I'll miss baseball. That I know.
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Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.
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This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
