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.
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I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
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We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.
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You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
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Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?
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I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
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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.
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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.
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Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.
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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.
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My friendships are very important to me.
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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.
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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.
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You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.
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...love at any age takes everything you've got.
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Sexuality throws no light upon love, but only through love can we learn to understand sexuality.
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My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.
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We haven't developed a progressive vocabulary. We say something is "public," but we just mean it's viewable online. Or we say it's "open," but we just mean it's accessible. I would like for us to think about terms critically and maybe change our vocabulary a bit. What if pubic actually meant publicly-funded, or social meant socialized.
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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.
