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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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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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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I think baseball was really reality when I was a freshman in high school.
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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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There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.
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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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As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better." "Or worse," said Liraz. "Yes," he conceded. "Usually worse." Hazael cut in. "My sister, Sunshine, and my brother, Light. You two should rally the ranks. You'll have us killing ourselves by morning.
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Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.
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It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on law with an emphasis on what is permitted.
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The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.
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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.
