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Gabby Douglas Quotes

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: December 31, 1995

Topics

Story Easy Tell Where Because Came

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

People Be Different Trying Go Just

I think that a lot of people in all walks of life have the impression, of course, that, 'I specialize in something. I can't - I don't have the time to read other things. I'll just go to pure entertainment when I'm relaxing, and then I'll come back to my pure specialty.' That produces - that attitude produces idiot savants, unfortunately.

Robert J. Shiller

Life Attitude Time People Think Go

I think books should have secrets, like people do.

People Think Secrets Books Like

We can all get complacent. Especially when it comes to a job.

Job Complacent Get

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.

Work Hard Work Day Job Boss Slavery

I hated L.A. when I first got here. Hated it.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

First Here Got Hated

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

Gratitude Dead Quick Off How Owed

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all I had to give.

Roberto Clemente

Want Remembered Give Who Gave Had

I had this urge to play the game of football, because so many people - I shouldn't say so many, a handful of people - said I couldn't do it. For me, it was one of those things that I just believe in my talent that the Lord gave me, and I wanted to take advantage of it.

Football Talent People Me Believe

I was waiting for a train at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. My knee was hurting, so I asked a young man for his seat. He replied, 'There's one over there'. I said, 'Please', and when he refused I poured my water over him.

Miriam Margolyes

Water Man Waiting Train Said Young

I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.

I deeply believe - and not just as a matter of politics, but even as a matter of morality - that matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves. And the last thing we need is government intruding into those personal decisions.

Politics Government Believe Decisions

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