Laurie Hernandez Quotes
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts.
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As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.
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As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.
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I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.
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I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.
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I am very strongly paternal. My paternal instincts need to be acted upon. My love needs a release. I love everyone. I don't express my love enough, but the love within me needs a platform as a parent.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.
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I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
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I take a script and mull over it and underline the bits I want to emphasize. When I go to the set, I know exactly what I want to do.
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I always do something that I've never done before.
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My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.
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My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.
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I will be working with David Lynch when I'm 80.
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'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.
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For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.
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I am really looking forward to racing near my new home town. I expect it to be a fast and exciting race.
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We are all concerned at the amount of stress we are putting on our players. It is a bigger issue and I am not competent to know what the solution is.
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The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their own soul.
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It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.
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It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.
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As far as cartoons go, I watched a lot of 'Ed, Edd, n Eddy' when I was a kid.
