Abbie Cornish Quotes
I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.
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Setting a tone of inclusiveness and ensuring protection for all begins at the top, whether from the White House or the State House.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Rock n' roll means so much more to people; it enriches the culture. Also, it inspires people; there's no half-feeling. When I first got into it, I was inspired by people who had come before me, and I found myself in the position of handing that on.
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There are too many people writing about whether they just farted or not.
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Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call 'Rock n' Roll.'
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
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I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.
