Laurie Hernandez Quotes

Secretly, I'm a 5-year-old.

Laurie Hernandez

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• Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Spiritual
  • Self

• When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Home
  • Food
  • Rather

• I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Work
  • Real
  • Witty

• Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.'

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Fall
  • Moment
  • Try

• I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Vision
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Love
  • Feel
  • Right

• You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Night
  • City

• I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

  

  Beck
  • Thing
  • Poem
  • Grammys

• Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.

  

  Ice T
  • Work
  • Great
  • Problem

• My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Job
  • Focus
  • Doing

• If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Real
  • History
  • Practice

• I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Music
  • Community
  • College

• I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • People
  • Change
  • Wish

• I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Think
  • Dad
  • Start

• Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I would be the worst biologist in the world!

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • World
  • Worst
  • Would

• I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Man
  • Always
  • Sound

• You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.

  

  Majora Carter
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• I had great schooling, and my parents were always in front of me, or next to me, or behind me, making sure I had whatever I needed.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Great
  • Parents

• No doubt, the most important thing in my career was my time with Mr. Bergman, with whom I worked in so many films and also in so many stage productions, so it was a continuous working relationship and also a friendship, of course, that lasted for so many years.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • Time
  • Important
  • Career

• You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.

  

  Chesty Puller
  • Hurt

• Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Lost
  • Shine

• One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Dead

• Secretly, I'm a 5-year-old.

  

  Laurie Hernandez