Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes

I'd much rather people knew me as a good tennis player than as an aboriginal who happens to play good tennis. Of course I'm proud of my race, but I don't want to be thinking about it all the time.

Evonne Goolagong Cawley

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• Tennis Player
• My Race

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• 'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.

  

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• The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Life
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• Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.

  

  Eberhard Weber
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• The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.

  

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• I'd like to date another millionaire. I've never done that.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Done

• I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.

  

  Bill Sienkiewicz
  • Work
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• No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

  

  Jennifer Saunders
  • Good
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• My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. She was scared of letting me go. So, she home-schooled my siblings and I, and she was desperately trying to find something for me to do for an extracurricular. She was trying to socialize me, so she put me in community theater, and I was instantly taken by it.

  

  Britt Robertson
  • Trying
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• When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Women
  • Mind
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• I drink a lot of water and always try to stay hydrated.

  

  Christie Rampone
  • Water

• I am excited to partner with Aeropostale for my very own collection. It was a great experience to be able to work with them. Not only did I get to design an entire fashion line, but I got to do it at a great price point with quality clothes, both of which are very important to me.

  

  Bethany Mota
  • Work
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• Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all - why not choose the I himself as beginning, middle, and end?

  

  Max Stirner
  • Why
  • Freedom
  • Beginning

• Even the oil companies don't need an incentive of $4 billion to go out and explore. As my grandpop would say, 'They’re doing just fine, thank you'.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Explore

• Who needs one more chef in one more building with four walls and a kitchen?

  

  Jose Andres
  • Kitchen

• There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ...

  

  Octavian Paler
  • Live
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• I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
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• There he is, tall, tanned, Italian, sophisticated. So what do you do?" I said, "Er, leap on him and snog him within an inch of his life? Taking care not to strangle myself on his false beard, or disturb his banana.

  

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• Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

  

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• Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I've done a lot of that kind of work before, anyway, and I was in good hands.

  

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  • Good
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• Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

  

  Cato the Elder
  • Virtue
  • Patience
  • Fame

• Through my curtains I can see a big yellow moon. I’m thinking of all the people in the world who will be looking at that same moon. I wonder how many of them haven’t got any eyebrows?

  

  Louise Rennison
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I'd much rather people knew me as a good tennis player than as an aboriginal who happens to play good tennis. Of course I'm proud of my race, but I don't want to be thinking about it all the time.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Thinking
  • Proud
  • Tennis Player