Laurie Hernandez Quotes
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
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People ask me what Gillian Anderson's like to work with, and I have no idea!
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For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.
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Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people—with agents.
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Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not socialists or communists, we are proponents of regulated capitalism and, I might add, people who have read American history.
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Don't let people tell you that you can't do something.
