Cathy Freeman Quotes
Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.
Quotes to Explore
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
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As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it's more than that, because two out of every three net new jobs come from small business. So we mean it when we talk about small business being the engine for the economy.
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To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.
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People find it hard to fit exercise into their working-day life. Nine to five jobs take up most of your day, so it's always difficult. But a little can go a long way. It can literally be 10 or 15 minutes of exercise that can be of real benefit.
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Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.
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I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.
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There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.
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We have a lot of things we give away to people who are very, very wealthy in this country. And I'm not sure that our federal government can afford that.
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Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.
