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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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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'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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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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He doesn't believe that public swimming-pools and a kind word in time will right the wrongs of the world; moreover, he takes a drink whenever he feels like it.
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My way of thinking as I approach any human being on this planet is, 'What are you doing now?' That's what interests me. I don't come at anybody with a whole bunch of assumptions.
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After a certain age our memories are so intertwined with one another that what we are thinking of, the book we are reading, scarcely matters any more. We have put something of ourselves everywhere, everything is fertile, everything is dangerous, and we can make discoveries no less precious than in Pascal's Pensées in an advertisement for soap.
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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.
