Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
When I was playing on the tour, I never really thought about the Hall of Fame because you're always thinking about your game and how you can do better.
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My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'
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To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.
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I've been in thousands of conversations dripping with misogyny. I've initiated many of those conversations myself. From my fraternity roots to my bachelor days in New York, I know I have not always shown up in ways that I am proud of.
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Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach.
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Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.
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Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.
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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
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I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
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'The Blind Side' took forever to get it out of 20th Century Fox in turnaround. It was one of three different movies I was involved with then. 'The Blind Side' just happened to be the one that got made.
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People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.
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As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.
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The crazy thing is a lot of people - a lot of men, if I'm just speaking for myself - don't really start thinking about the effect of hyper-masculinity and false definitions of what it means to be a man until you get married or until you have kids. Because then, all of sudden, you have something to protect.
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I write one step at a time, always finishing off the part I'm working on before even thinking about the next part. I need to hear it all together before deciding what goes next. I even mix before moving on...in other words, I write by recording.
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The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.
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When I was playing on the tour, I never really thought about the Hall of Fame because you're always thinking about your game and how you can do better.
