Laurie Hernandez Quotes

My parents have tried not to intrude. They kind of stayed apart from my gymnastics but are very supportive, and that's very helpful as a gymnast to not have your parents say, 'Did you do this today?' and just be very on top of you.

Laurie Hernandez

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• I always played to win.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Always
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• I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Brain
  • Angry

• I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Work
  • Always
  • Wanted

• Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Great
  • Feeling
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• Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • School
  • Political
  • Change

• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Strong
  • Acting
  • Weak

• Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Character

• The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Business
  • Me
  • Entertainment

• More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Me
  • Wish
  • Manager

• They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Together
  • Help
  • Game

• Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • People
  • History
  • True

• If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Sleep
  • I Can
  • Luxury

• It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • World
  • Good
  • Dream

• There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Food
  • Knowing

• I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Why
  • Know
  • Kind

• To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Feeling
  • Best
  • Being

• I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• If today is Children's Day, yesterday I said that child... the children's day is mother's day, father's day and teachers' day, but is also the day of the animals. Whenever you look at a child, there is always a hidden figure, which is a dog behind, which is something very important.

  

  Dilma Rousseff
  • Important
  • Children
  • Mother

• If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Today
  • inspirational

• I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • School
  • Done
  • Art

• Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

  

  Susan Griffin
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Body

• My parents have tried not to intrude. They kind of stayed apart from my gymnastics but are very supportive, and that's very helpful as a gymnast to not have your parents say, 'Did you do this today?' and just be very on top of you.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Today
  • Parents
  • Gymnastics