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In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard. ↗

— Rebecca Lobo

#away #bad #because #before #did

I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#after #change #had #i #i think

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society. ↗

— Gary Locke

#diversity #ethnic #richness #society

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. ↗

— John Locke

#knowledge #nothing #reasoning #truth #use

I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle. ↗

— Gary Locke

#assumed #because #came #i #i came

I'm somewhat overwhelmed by the microblogging that takes place in China, and the smartphones and all the people that want to take pictures of myself and my family. ↗

— Gary Locke

#family #i #myself #overwhelmed #people

My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane. ↗

— Gary Locke

#asian #could #course #dad #doctor

The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century. ↗

— Gary Locke

#been #big #century #constant #cultures

The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years. ↗

— Gary Locke

#exports #growth #heavy #intensive #investment

We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism. ↗

— Gary Locke

#big problems #change #china #climate #climate change