Cathy Freeman Quotes
I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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I grew up listening to a lot of different types of music, and R&B in particular was something that I loved - Aaliyah, Usher, Alicia Keys, TLC.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.
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I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered. Truth was that I wanted to get out of the rat race. Having children changed my life and segregated me from just about everybody and everything that was going on. Outside of my family, nothing held any real interest for me and I was seeing everything through different glasses.
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'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'
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Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.
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Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
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I think that people have a very strict perception of what a pop artist is.
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Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.
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I was in front of the goal so much at Stanford. I still amassed a lot of goals, but there were so many opportunities that I wasn't scoring.
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I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.
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I find significance in all kinds of small details when I run; I'm hyper aware of my surroundings, the sensations in my body, and the thoughts running through my mind. Everything is clearer, heightened.
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Usually, I think, every film I've made has been a book, and I've always read it.
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The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.
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In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.
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For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.
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I realized I love motivating and I love empowering and I love inspiring people. I did that as an athlete for 18 years, and I am able to do that as a motivational speaker now as well as doing work on television.
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I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.
