Laurie Hernandez Quotes
Growing up, there wasn't an exact Hispanic role model that I had. I didn't realize how big a difference I was making, going to the Olympics and being Hispanic, until I would be in an autograph session, and parents would come up to me and say, 'You know, our family is so proud of you, you're really doing Hispanics proud.'
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.
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It's when you cry just a little, but you laugh in the middle that you've made it.
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I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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Growing up, there wasn't an exact Hispanic role model that I had. I didn't realize how big a difference I was making, going to the Olympics and being Hispanic, until I would be in an autograph session, and parents would come up to me and say, 'You know, our family is so proud of you, you're really doing Hispanics proud.'
