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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
I believe that dogma is often evil.
-
Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
-
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.
-
You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
-
Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
-
Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
-
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.
-
I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
-
I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
-
The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
-
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
-
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
-
I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
-
I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.
-
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
-
The works of Mozart may be easy to read, but they are very difficult to interpret. The least speck of dust spoils them. They are clear, transparent, and joyful as a spring, and not only those muddy pools which seem deep only because the bottom cannot be seen.
-
Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.
-
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.
