Cathy Freeman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.
-
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.'
-
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
-
I think Hillary Clinton deserves to have people vouch for her other than members of the Democratic National Committee.
-
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.
-
I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.
-
Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.
-
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.
-
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."
-
When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I've always been a serious computer nerd, as well as a biologist.
-
It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.
-
Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.
-
What you've got to do is look in your cupboard, see what's there, put it all in a big pot, sprinkle some grated cheese on top and bung it in the oven. That's what pop music is all about.
-
How can you have any regret when everything worked out fine? But why I think it worked out fine is due to the lessons I learned along the way. And one of those involves listening to experts.
-
Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.
-
I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly.
