Laurie Hernandez Quotes
I knew when I started gymnastics, I wanted to have a lot of fun and eventually go to the Olympics. On the moments where I felt really down, I just remembered, 'You're almost there. Just keep going. Keep working hard.'
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.
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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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I thought I was going to be in musical theater all the way, from beginning to end, and then it started not to feel right after my first year at conservatory.
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I love everybody that I work with, and we have so much fun.
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Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.
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That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.
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For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.
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I knew when I started gymnastics, I wanted to have a lot of fun and eventually go to the Olympics. On the moments where I felt really down, I just remembered, 'You're almost there. Just keep going. Keep working hard.'
