Cameron van der Burgh Quotes
Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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Equality in education is my number one battle.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
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If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids? If they're not seeing that their society sees gay people as equals, how could you tell them what they're doing is wrong? With all this stuff going on, with the "Don't ask, don't tell" and things like that, we are second-class citizens, definitely. It just seems to me that it's hypocritical for us as a culture to say, "Bullying is a terrible thing," when really, they are just reflecting what the society is doing.
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I'm not just coming here for a payday. I'm not an old guy at the end of my career looking for a payday. I've got a title to keep.
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I'd rather kill myself than dress like Victoria Beckham in towering heels day after day.
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For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
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I'm proud to be associated with the public policies of Richard Nixon.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
