Cathy Freeman Quotes
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.
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If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.
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Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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I started modeling when I was 16. The odds were against me. At 5' 8, I was shorter than most girls in the business. Still, I gave it a shot, and like with most things in my life, I never gave up.
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Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years.
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Somewhere in my closetThere's a cardboard box just sittin' on a shelf.It's full of faded memoriesAnd it's been there ever since the night you left.Oh, just forgotten photographsTo remind me of the past.Oh, but I can still see everything just fine.Who needs pictures with a memory like mine?Yeah, who needs pictures with a memory like mine?
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
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There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
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The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
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I believe that high, sustainable growth rates can only be possible on the basis of macro-stability.
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With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.
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I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.
