Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
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I never had to look for confidence because I just wore what I wanted to wear. I would never wear anything to offend my husband or my mother, but outside of that, I always figured, I hope I'm not a rebel, and I hope everybody liked it. And if they didn't like it, it really was not going to disturb me because it was their problem, not mine.
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Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.
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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
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Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.
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I work hard, and managing an inventory-based business can be extremely stressful. The upside is that, as long as I get my job done, I can take time off pretty much any time I want.
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I had an obsession with underarm shields - pointy ones, round ones, full ones, half ones.
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I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.
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When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?
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It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.
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Though decisions regarding work/life balance are important and vary widely from person to person, it may not be wise in the long run to optimize for doing the bare minimum at work.
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I have a journal of everything I've ever climbed since 2005. For the entry about free soloing Half Dome, I put a frowny face and added some little notes about what I should have done better, and then underlined it. Turns out that is one of my biggest climbing achievements.
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I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.
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I like music and dancing.
