Laurie Hernandez Quotes

As far as cartoons go, I watched a lot of 'Ed, Edd, n Eddy' when I was a kid.

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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.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Victory
  • Security
  • Tax

• 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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Done
  • Character
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • War
  • Democracy

• I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Performer
  • Five-Year-Old

• I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Find
  • Guitar
  • Numbers

• 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.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Needs
  • Parent
  • Instincts

• I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • People
  • Believe
  • You

• 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.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Enjoy

• I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Kids
  • Kid
  • Other

• 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.

  

  Walter Crane
  • People
  • Art
  • Free

• I always do something that I've never done before.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Done
  • Always
  • Never

• 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.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Remember
  • Man
  • Poverty

• 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.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Why
  • Home

• I will be working with David Lynch when I'm 80.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Working
  • Will
  • David

• '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.

  

  Laila Robins
  • People
  • School
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • War
  • Forever
  • Violence

• I literally couldn't get anyone to hire me. Having a woman do sports was seen as too risky.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Sports

• I'll officer you.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

• The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!

  

  Hannah More
  • Action

• Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Life
  • Power
  • Game

• Apparently I'm introspective... levelheaded... but at the same time, absolutely insane.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Insane
  • Introspective

• Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Enemy

• If we were all kind, if we were all loving and respectful to one another, this world would be so different. So it starts with you, and you can do it. Don't let anything hold you back!

  

  Ally Brooke Fifth Harmony
  • World
  • Different

• As far as cartoons go, I watched a lot of 'Ed, Edd, n Eddy' when I was a kid.

  

  Laurie Hernandez