Laurie Hernandez Quotes
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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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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The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.
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Right now, American government has stepped back from offering any kinds of protection for human rights and public health. And the fossil fuel industry thinks that they have just absolute free rein to go for it. The one thing in the way is public opposition. It's civil society. It's activism.
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I love this life, because I am a human being and it sure would be nice, I think, to preserve it. But I don't even know if that's true, because God's mind is huge, and I don't really know what he's thinking.I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.
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Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.
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Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
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Even though I'm a gymnast, I've always loved dancing.
