Cathy Freeman Quotes
I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.
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I'm always confident when I sign up for a project that it's going to be good. That's why I sign up for it.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
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A house is kind of scary.
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I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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I like to collect DVDs of most English films.
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The more you believe that you deserve healthy love, the more you will conquer and attract.
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A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.
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I ran track. I ran cross country. But I did not play organized basketball in high school, at least on our team. But I played a lot of sports.
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I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.
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One of the themes of 'The Longest War,' my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and bin Laden was losing the war of ideas in the Muslim world, not because the United States was winning them, but because al-Qaida was simply losing them.
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The people with the passports, the people who travel more, tend to be the most understanding. And it's ironic that the people who travel the least have the strongest opinions about the people they've never met.
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I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.
