Laurie Hernandez Quotes
Dancing is different than gymnastics, but it's a good different, and it's something that I've always wanted to try.
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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.
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To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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I make good music for long journeys.
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When you don't have one that you throw for strikes - they are good hitters - they can cancel out one pitch and go to another. Now I have four pitches. If one's not working, I've got three others. It makes the game totally different.
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I think the weather here is a big attraction for anyone. But also, there are more creative people per square mile in L.A. than anywhere in the world. They make 'The Simpsons' here. Anywhere they make 'The Simpsons' is a good place to be.
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If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.
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When you're younger and a little more innocent, you write whatever [lyrics] comes naturally. But as you get used to writing you try to steer the sound and music to different music and throwing in the "kitchen sink" of sorts into the music. With that way, you end up putting in much more than before and you could even make much more next time around.
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Dancing is different than gymnastics, but it's a good different, and it's something that I've always wanted to try.
