Cathy Freeman Quotes
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The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.
Said Nursi -
Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
Eckhart Tolle -
Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
Yuna -
If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.
Aaron Neville -
I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
Hamilton Jordan -
I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
Bebe Neuwirth
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
Yannick Noah -
Every note is a lifetime for itself.
Daniel Barenboim -
My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
Zubin Mehta -
I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
Ingmar Bergman -
It's not for me or another European to speak about domestic political choices or decisions in the U.S.
Federica Mogherini -
It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.
Harold Ramis
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
Jacob Dalton -
A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions.
Edmund Phelps -
I definitely gravitate towards things like vegetables, chicken, brown rice, but I don't deprive myself of anything. If I want a Sprinkles cupcake, I'm having a Sprinkles cupcake. But I'm not going to have one every day... you just have to have a sensible outlook on all of it.
Abigail Spencer -
If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.
Garry Kasparov -
When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.
Patrick deWitt -
Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.
Viggo Mortensen
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The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.
Richard Serra -
I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something.
Eugene Mirman -
When people ask me a personal question, I answer it in a personal way. I can only speak from the footsteps and the shoes that I've walked in.
La'Porsha Renae -
I nitpick details.
Adam Lambert -
The thing I do best is laugh.
Cathy Freeman