Nancy Greene Quotes
Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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Be critical of these institutions that we love, whether they be our sports teams or the criminal justice system. Be critical of what the police department is doing about sexual assault. Be critical of why prosecutors are not prosecuting sexual assault.
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If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.
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There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
