Laurie Hernandez Quotes

When I was 5, I was always joking around like, 'Oh man, I wanna go to the Olympics.'

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• Success demands singleness of purpose.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Success
  • Purpose
  • Demands

• I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Eye

• The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

  

  Ian Botham
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • America
  • Water

• There is a lot more to me than just being a crazy fighter.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Crazy
  • More
  • Fighter

• It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Skin

• When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Home
  • Gold
  • New

• I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Woman
  • Movies
  • Find

• But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • People
  • Trying
  • Ideas

• If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Done

• My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Comedy
  • Example
  • Follow

• Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity, and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Education
  • Powerful
  • Growth

• I love people and people watching. I love music. I am intrigued by musicians more than I am actors. I have a bigger respect for them.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • People
  • Music
  • Respect

• Thou Great First Cause, least understood Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Good
  • Great
  • Art

• I’m sorry... I’m sorry that Limbaugh is one sorry excuse for a human being.

  

  Alan Grayson
  • Sorry

• The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when Sad tries to bite its lip and not cry and smile and go, 'No, I'm happy for you?' That's when it's really sad.

  

  John Mayer
  • Happy
  • Sad
  • Smile

• I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.

  

  Ben Stein
  • Hope

• When I walk into a courtroom, I feel like I'm home.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Home

• I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.

  

  Pamela Druckerman

• I had one date in high school - that was it, and he didn't ask me out again, because I was taller than everybody. I was very gangly and awkward, and I wore weird clothes that I made.

  

  Geena Davis
  • School
  • High
  • Weird

• Every time I hear a Republican talking about health care reform, they say the American people don't want it. They say it so much that I think they're beginning to try to convince themselves that it's true.

  

  John Yarmuth
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Different
  • Feeling
  • Know

• In Los Angeles there's, like, this awful image because the girls are so skinny. I don't think it's attractive whatsoever, and I also think that it gives a bad image to kids that are in their early teens. It's not healthy.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • Kids
  • Bad

• When I was 5, I was always joking around like, 'Oh man, I wanna go to the Olympics.'

  

  Laurie Hernandez