Dominique Moceanu Quotes
I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.
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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
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I have the physique a lot of people dream about having. It's my obligation to share it with the world.
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The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
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I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.
