Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
I hope that I am helping to create an understanding and an awareness of what happened to the Aboriginal people.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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In brief, when women batter, men’s first priority is to support the women and help them change; when men batter, women’s first priority is to escape the men and put them in prison.
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Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.
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The poor don't want some small life. They don't want to game the system. They want to contribute, and they want to thrive. But poverty reduces people born for better things.
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I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.
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The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
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On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.
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I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don't have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit. I can let other things speak for me now.
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I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens.
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A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.
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I'm a huge Hunter S. Thompson fan.
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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
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In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.
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From the equilibrium and spontaneous order of Adam Smith and his heirs, from invisible-handed markets and perfect competition, supply and demand, and rewards and punishments, I was pushed to theories of disequilibrium and disorder, and information and noise, as the keys to understanding economic progress.
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I hope that I am helping to create an understanding and an awareness of what happened to the Aboriginal people.
