Laurie Hernandez Quotes
I was an energetic child, always walking on my hands, flipping off of the back of the couch, or jumping up and down on my bed.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I hate competition.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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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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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'
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Because of the way that myth takes it for granted that miracles are always happening, the waking life of a mythically inspired people - the ancient Greeks, for instance - more closely resembles a dream than it does the waking world of a scientifically disenchanted thinker.
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Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.
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I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next.
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'Reign' - and this might sound cheesy, but it's a dream I had. I dreamt everything that happened in that song, woke up, and wrote the song.
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We should roll back Common Core.
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I was an energetic child, always walking on my hands, flipping off of the back of the couch, or jumping up and down on my bed.
