Cathy Freeman Quotes
I've had my fair share of being dismissed. But I'm only about to turn 30. And when I finish running, I'm going to be a dangerous woman.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
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I was fortunate to have a grandfather who was an optometrist. Vision therapy was something that we routinely did to strengthen our eyes and give us better focus. I was fortunate that he could teach me techniques that are still paying dividends for me to this day.
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I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.
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I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think we'll draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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I think I can try the film world out for a while.
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Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.
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It doesn't make sense to argue about how much global warming is caused by man - whether it's 5 percent or 50 percent.
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I don't like watching shows where all of a sudden you're like, what happened? They shot the last season in Las Vegas?
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Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.
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I hate the idea of any kid missing out on the magic of reading.
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The Hulk has an awesome superpower. He turns into this giant monster that can eliminate several dudes at once.
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I'm pro-life. I'm pro-gun. I'm pro-family. And I'm pro-business.
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It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.
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When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past?
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We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?
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It was more possible that the human race possessed some spark of divinity that was worth cultivating than that a mysterious being was up there in the ether somewhere with anthropomorphic qualities of goodness and mercy running the whole show.
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I've had my fair share of being dismissed. But I'm only about to turn 30. And when I finish running, I'm going to be a dangerous woman.
