Laurie Hernandez Quotes

The Olympics, as a little kid, it was such a big goal that I created for myself, and I was able to push through and make that happen.

Laurie Hernandez

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• I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

  

  Felicia Day
  • America
  • History
  • Fact

• We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Conservation
  • Partnerships

• You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Worth

• Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Trump
  • Will
  • Himself

• I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Feel
  • Hands
  • Comfortable

• If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Alone

• Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Bad
  • Positive
  • Idea

• Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Business
  • Giving

• I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Country
  • Know
  • Grace

• Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air safer to breathe, and tackle climate change - the greatest environmental crisis of our time.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Change

• Though every nation must do its part to address climate change, developed nations are responsible for the lion's share of carbon pollution in the atmosphere, and they have an obligation to help developing nations transition to a sustainable future.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Help
  • Future
  • Change

• I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Me
  • Justice
  • Politics

• My friendships are very important to me.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Important
  • Me
  • Very

• I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • People
  • Fame
  • Lifestyle

• I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Party

• I've heard directing talked about as being a benign dictatorship, and I think that's probably the best way a director should be. They're open to collaboration and feedback from people, but ultimately, it's got to be that one person's vision. That's what I think makes a film really stand out.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Best
  • Vision

• Lyrics are really important for me.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Important
  • Me
  • Lyrics

• I had a colonic irrigation in this clinic in Santa Monica, because people in Los Angeles cannot do anything for themselves, much less take a shit.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • People

• I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Independent
  • Equality
  • Voting

• The Modi government believes that the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.

  

  Piyush Goyal
  • People

• I want to be the first person to animate bags - everything done for handbags bores me to tears - I want to make it more playful.

  

  Peter Marino
  • Done
  • Tears

• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Summer

• The Olympics, as a little kid, it was such a big goal that I created for myself, and I was able to push through and make that happen.

  

  Laurie Hernandez