Laurie Hernandez Quotes
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line. And then I just start adding layers of synthesizers.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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I'm proud to be part of the resistance.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.
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I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
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We've done a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful. The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement, and all selection research basically points to that.
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I'm a strong believer in the fact that women are born to multi-task. God has made us like that.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know I still have other angles to shoot and I have to be done by noon; I move on.
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Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, 'What are you going to do now you're out of uniform?' I said, 'I'm pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,' and he said, 'Have you thought about being an actor?'
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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Even though I'm a gymnast, I've always loved dancing.
