Laurie Hernandez Quotes
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I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.
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Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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I love my beauty. It's not my fault.
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There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.
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I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.
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I am not an enemy of Adventism.
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I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
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When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
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Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.
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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
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You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations.
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When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
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Every single note on this album is there for a reason.
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I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.
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Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.
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I think people are people. If you want something, go get it. I don't think it matters what race you are.
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We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.
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China's development benefits other countries.
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Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.
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I would love to be an actress!
