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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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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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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To me, what I realized when we were doing 'Spinal Tap' - and the four of us wrote that - is, really, the core of that is the relationship with the two guys who grew up together and that strain when the girlfriend comes in. If that wasn't there, it's a very different movie. Then it's just bumbling guys stumbling along.
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I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.
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When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.
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I do have anger management issues. Not clinical. Probably no more than most people.
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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.
