Dominique Dawes Quotes
I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.
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I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights.
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The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.
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I love to work. I know that sounds ridiculous to say because all people love to work, but I love the homework that goes into acting. I love figuring out different ways of playing a scene. I love the energy of being on set. I love not getting enough sleep because I have to wake up early in the morning.
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I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.
