Cathy Freeman Quotes
I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.
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Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
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Quality that significantly exceeds the customer's expectations doesn't seem to pay off. This 'delight the customer' stuff isn't rewarding. One has to be careful about delighting customers too often, because it sort of reshapes customer expectations.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
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Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
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When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
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The bottom line is that it's hard to find a model in which you can practically administer and sustain political support for those kinds of efforts. And what makes America complicated as well is the degree to which this is not just a black/white society, and it is becoming less so every year.
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I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.
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My dad always made sense. My dad was only wrong when I didn't understand him. Had I listened to him, my life would have been so much easier.
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I prefer a life in which we don't take ourselves too seriously.
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I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
