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" I want to be a role model. I want to be able to know that I inspired girls to work hard and go for their dreams and to never give up. "

Laurie Hernandez

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" When you cease to dream you cease to live. "

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" We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself. "

" Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag. "

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" Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile. "

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" I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. "

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" I do like writing. When I was a little kid, I used to love writing funny, silly stories - and my mom would always encourage it. I don't know why I ever stopped! "

Laurie Hernandez

" The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. "

" Basically, I was a little bit nervous before competing beam at the Olympics, and I had this nervous thing to just talk to myself, like 'You can do it, you can do it.' And right before I hopped up there, I said, 'I got this.' "

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" As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through. "

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" I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true. "

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" Everyone keeps asking me when I have time to rest. I'll tell you when: I get all my sleep on planes. If the flight is five hours, my nap is five hours! I'll sleep through the whole flight. "

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" I went into the 'Idol' audition with no expectations; that's just the kind of person I am. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't hurt so badly, you know? But once I made it past the first round, and the second, and third - I started to realize, 'Maybe my goals and dreams really are attainable.' "

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