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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
-
I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
-
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.
-
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!
-
I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
-
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.
-
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
-
Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
-
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.
-
I'm an outsider.
-
Hemingway was a jerk.
-
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.
-
How'm I doing?
-
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.
-
There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
-
Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
-
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.
-
We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
-
Mondays I sleep. I go in at ten, do my lift, watch the game from the day before. Tuesday is off, but I go in, lift, watch film. Then I have French toast with my sister.
-
It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.
-
I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
-
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.
