Cathy Freeman Quotes

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

Cathy Freeman

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• I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Past
  • Never
  • Name

• You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Important
  • Single
  • Human

• Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Child
  • Self-Esteem

• In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Trying
  • Government
  • Constitution

• The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • World
  • Different
  • Me

• I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Time
  • Song
  • Day

• I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Drawing
  • Now
  • Sure

• I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Political

• There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Light
  • Opinion

• You can feel very strongly that someone doesn't like you. I think any model who didn't have the same sort of upbringing as me would find that very difficult. But I absolutely knew I was entitled. I never thought I was ugly - it never crossed my mind.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Mind
  • Model
  • Ugly

• I've never been about just trying to do what works. I've been about trying to authentically express how I feel.

  

  Andy Mineo
  • Trying

• When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Family
  • Help
  • Car

• TV can be a thread between all of us, and it can be a powerful tool to examine life and love and what we all have in common as humans.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Life
  • Powerful

• I give myself strength by staying away from any music.

  

  Alannah Myles
  • Music

• When I left the San Francisco DA's office, I went down to the Los Angeles district attorney's office, and I was able to try a tremendous amount - very serious cases and working in gang neighborhoods, impoverished neighborhoods - really make a difference and be impactful in those communities.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Serious
  • Gang

• Jay Z is building a range of businesses just on the strength of his brand. Lady Gaga has formed really interesting partnerships. Justin Bieber and his manager Scooter Braun are investing in a number of different companies and also promoting them in many ways.

  

  Anita Elberse
  • Different
  • Interesting

• I'm not experienced enough, or certain enough of my acting on the screen to say to a director, "You are wrong, I am right. I will only do it this way." I could never feel that, I wish I could be absolutely certain. But on the stage, it's different. I know where I am on the stage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Different
  • Wish

• My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Great
  • Family
  • Mother

• If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Cat

• Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Science

• There is no way to peace, but rather peace itself is the way to life in God’s kingdom.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Way
  • Peace
  • God’s kingdom

• I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • Lying
  • Cat
  • Watches