Laurie Hernandez Quotes
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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.
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When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.
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What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
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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.
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I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
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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.
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My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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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.
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Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.
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I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
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You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.
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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.
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I would like the thrill of making a new project every time.
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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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I have tremendous respect for teens who navigate the quagmire that is modern religion. If there is any message in my books, I want it to be that it's okay to ask questions, and it's okay to come up with a belief system all your own. Teens who change their worldviews in the face of tremendous social pressure are heroes to me.
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I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.
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Garden as though you will live forever.
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I really don't try to force the creative process. I'm really jealous of those other rappers who just hear a beat and write a song within minutes. I know a lot of rappers like that. I'm the type of artist who kind of has to sit with some stuff for a while.
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I'm the worst person to tell anybody how to date.
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I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.
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Secretly, I'm a 5-year-old.
