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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Hemingway was a jerk.
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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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How'm I doing?
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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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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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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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We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fact, any one of us can make that change, in any direction, at any moment.
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It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.
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You need some reason why Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn in the 18th century all flocked to Vienna. What was it about Vienna? They must have known on some level that that is where they would flourish. It's what biologists call "selective migration."
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I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
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It appears that PepsiCo views structural change as a sign of weakness, an admission of failure, and an untenable break with past traditions.
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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.
