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We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#always #better #enough #good #never

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#bundle #class #energy #fell #gymnastics

I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#commit #feel #felt #i #life

When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#back #coach #come #decisions #did

With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#background #being #book #come #essentially

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. ↗

— William Samuel Johnson

#catch #golden #good #great #great art

And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya! ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

#contempt #court #dagger #five #give

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#because #breaks #dangerous #dangerous thing #era

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#civil disobedience #disobedience #rights #risk #their

Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration. ↗

— Tim Johnson

#be the first #bush #change #during #first