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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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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My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.
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Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
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The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or men who love living.
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I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.
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I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.
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It is extremely rewarding for me to be recognised by the University of Aberdeen. This is where I grew up and nurtured my dreams.
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Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.
