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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When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.
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Lots of entrepreneurs don't want to be hassled by a board of directors early on. The entrepreneurs want to control the company, don't want to be responsible to a board, or don't want to waste time communicating with board members. This is a classic error of thinking about the early stage board incorrectly.
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I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.
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The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
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I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.
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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.
