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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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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If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
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You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.
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In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didn't get to when I was younger.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.
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Slowly, but surely, we are moving in the right direction. We're on the right track. The economy is getting stronger
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I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
