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'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
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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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Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.
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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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It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.
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It is true that no member state can be required to make payments to others. But if countries want to offer voluntary assistance, as in the Greek case, this isn't only allowed, but it's also in Germany's interest. We all benefit by ensuring the stability of the euro zone.
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I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. This manifests itself in different cultural variances, but that's really what's going on everywhere.
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I would love to be an actress!