Cathy Freeman Quotes
The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
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I'm not in this sport to take punishment.
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War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.
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I slept with a woman on the ship, and afterwards I was thinking, 'Am I gaaaay? Am I straaaaight?' And then I realized: I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?
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Even people that are close to me or people that are acquaintances... The only question I get now is, 'How is music going?' It's an overpowering quality of my life now, the fact that I write songs. It's weird to navigate what that means socially.
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Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.
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What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it.
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Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.
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I got through college realizing business was repugnant.
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When you've seen a lot of bad stuff and just want to enjoy your life and be happy and have your kids happy and have your friends happy, you just have a value system where it raises the bar on what's important.
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My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses.
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Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted... to become in the future as closely united, as powerful, and as authoritative as once the Roman world-empire was, and that, just as in the old times they said, Civis romanus sum, hereafter, at some time in the future, they will say, I am a German citizen.
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I've started to really become aware of the world we live in, what's really going on.
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The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world.
