Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.
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I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.
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There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.
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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
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I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.
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'Let us leave tomorrow’s trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.'
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Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.
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Freedom.
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I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.
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Sushi is one of my favorite foods.
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Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a pliant Congress, a desperate public - and, at his disposal, the greatest pot of money in galactic history.
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As I glided further into the dusty mollusk volumes, I discovered that gastropods - which account for 80 percent of all mollusks - are one of the most successful animal groups. They have existed for half a billion years, surviving or reevolving through several mass extinction events. They make their home in nearly every habitat on earth. While thirty-five thousand living terrestrial snail species have been documented, tens of thousands are not yet identified.
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When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.
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For immigrant women, fighting for some of the standard platforms of the women's movement may feel unthinkable when deportation is staring you in the face every day.
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Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.
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Usually I have to leave parties early - just when the action is beginning.
