Cathy Freeman Quotes
With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.Cathy Freeman
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
Adam McKay -
I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
Becky G -
We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
Mac Thornberry -
In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
Magic Johnson -
The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
Iggy Pop
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
Eartha Kitt -
A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
T. E. Lawrence -
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
Mahmoud Darwish -
At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
Dan Gertler -
It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
Walter O'Brien
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Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.
Aaron Eckhart -
Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.
Patch Adams -
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
Garth Brooks -
Sometimes, of course, there's no quick way to make it through immigration: Different airports have gluts of incoming flights at different times of day, and short of rearranging your flight schedule to ensure you'll land at a low-traffic hour, there's nothing you can do.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I want all of the work that I do to have a social justice footprint attached. I want it to move the needle forward when it comes to the perception of all people, but especially people of color.
Winston Duke
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Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer diseases.
Carol Leifer -
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to ‘take in’, that civilized man practises a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the brief span of his life.
W. Somerset Maugham -
With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
Cathy Freeman