Cathy Freeman Quotes
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A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of various material studies, is as barren as the sky without the moon, or a heart without peace, or a nation without reference to law.
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Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.
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They say I need to be seasoned; they say I need to be stewed. They say, 'We need to boil all the hope out of him -- like us -- and then he'll be ready.'
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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
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I think Hillary Clinton deserves to have people vouch for her other than members of the Democratic National Committee.
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I will take responsibility for any impression or anything I've ever done that people have legitimate questions about. But I think that it's fair to say there's been a concerted effort to convince people like that young man of something, nobody's quite sure what, but of something.
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I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.
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Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.
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I readied myself for the great effort of speaking with the throat-and-belly instead of the mind-and-heart. It is altogether a different skill.
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Many of the jazz musicians whom are no longer here. You don't realize that it's history when it is happening and then time passes and you look at a picture and you say "Wow, there is history attached to that."
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When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.
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I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.
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The white paper is very much in line with what we and Air France have said over the last years. Unfortunately we don't have the same intelligence services.
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I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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I've always been a serious computer nerd, as well as a biologist.
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What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.
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It's the nightmare scenario that environmental activists around the world have been hoping would be avoided.
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When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.
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Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian.
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Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
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I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.
