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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There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.
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I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.
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I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me.
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One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.
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It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.
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Even though I'm a gymnast, I've always loved dancing.
