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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The millennial generation in the US is the first that has reduced expectations from those of their parents. And I think there is something decadent and declinist about that.
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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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My work in those years was essentially of a propagandist nature. I was too young and unknown to play a part in the leading circles of Germany, let alone of world Zionism, which was controlled from Berlin.
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Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.
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The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.
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Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.
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A lot of people would write to me long stories from their lives, and I felt they were thinking of me as some sort of treasure chest to keep their secrets. I felt like sometimes they would tell me stories they wouldn't tell anybody else in the whole world. And I loved these stories.
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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.
