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.

  

  Adam Baldwin
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• I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

  

  Rachel Johnson
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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.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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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.

  

  Action Bronson
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• I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
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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.'

  

  Vince Cable
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• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

  

  C. K. Williams
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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.

  

  Wang Leehom
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• It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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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.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.

  

  Patrick Macnee
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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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• I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.

  

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• At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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• The will to challenge myself is strong, but I think that's growing, the desire to stretch myself and make it hard.

  

  Will Poulter
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  • Myself
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• God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

  

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  • Sea
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• I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Believe
  • Parents

• 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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