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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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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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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Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.
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I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.
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Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion.
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Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.
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I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to the glaring fact that I cannot think in complete sentences, that I think only in short fragments or long, run-on thought relays that the literati call stream of consciousness but I still like to think of as disdain for the finality of the period).
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I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.
