Cathy Freeman Quotes
I'd like to see as many sports as I can because I have never had the chance to enjoy the other sports in the past.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.
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I'm an outsider.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.
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Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
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Don't get me wrong – I love books! I just think a video has a bigger bang when it comes to a good, old-fashioned adrenaline rush.
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We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
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I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
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When you hear a story, do you believe only the nice parts? Truth isn’t like a baked fish, where you can eat the flesh and leave the bones and skin. You have to eat it all.
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Not for nothing did Eldridge Cleaver say that the North Korean police made him miss the Oakland police.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?
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I'd like to see as many sports as I can because I have never had the chance to enjoy the other sports in the past.
