Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
I used to say during my career that the biggest gift was having my children.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
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Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a really, really long time since we had something to celebrate that didn't involve a sports team. I'd rather it had been a non-death-related occasion, but we'll take what we can get.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
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I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.
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I was going to France to do my masters and my Ph.D., but I didn't know how to say, 'bonjour.' You really feel like a baby, starting everything from scratch.
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Those trying to get support for their iPhones don't necessary trust their carriers, so they ask their friends for help.
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My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She also made her own clothes. She had these fashion magazines, and I would draw the women in them. My middle school art teacher suggested that I have a fashion drawing show.
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I love Chipotle. And I'm not just saying that. Like, I genuinely am in love with Chipotle.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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When I moved to L.A., I had no intention of really pursuing acting. I wanted to focus on stand-up. It's crazy to me that my acting career took off much faster than my stand-up career.
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Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.
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I used to say during my career that the biggest gift was having my children.
