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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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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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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I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.
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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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What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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There is nothing inherently expensive about rockets. It's just that those who have built and operated them in the past have done so with horrendously poor efficiency.
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Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.
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God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.
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I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.
