Cathy Freeman Quotes
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
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While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
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With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.
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If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.
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I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
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How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
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I can loop my tongue into multiple rolls.
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Once we see Jesus, the impossible things He does in our lives become as natural as breathing.
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I leaned too early. I was running, I looked across, I realised I was going to win - the thought I was on for a world record entered my mind - I reached for the line when I should have stayed straight.
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When you write a song that is so personal to yourself, it's really hard to picture anybody else understanding it when you're singing it. There's things that are very broad and universal topics. Those are the songs that might work for others.
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When people hear our record, they're not going to be able to put us into the 'New Metal' category or the 'pop-punk' category or the 'aggressive emo' category. I think people will be able to take it for what it is.
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Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.
