Laurie Hernandez Quotes

When you're a little kid, and you're, like, thinking about the Olympics, and you just have this big expectation, it just lived up exactly to that.

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• As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

  

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• I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

  

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• Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

  

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• My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

  

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• I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

  

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• If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

  

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• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

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• I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

  

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• Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them.

  

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• The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

  

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• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

  

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• You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.

  

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• The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

  

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• If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.

  

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• It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.

  

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• Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.

  

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• If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.

  

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• I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

  

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• I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o'clock, and because I had boxing, I lived the disciplined life. I started reading because I learnt that so many champions educated themselves. Joe Louis, Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins. Before, it was 'act now, think later' - but the discipline and reading changed me.

  

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• To make more plans than an explorer or a crook, yet to be infected at the will's very root.

  

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• And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.

  

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• I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.

  

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• Anyone who's an executive at a record label does not understand what the Internet is, how it works, how people use it, how fans and consumers interact - no idea. I'm surprised they know how to use e-mail.

  

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• When you're a little kid, and you're, like, thinking about the Olympics, and you just have this big expectation, it just lived up exactly to that.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Expectation