Bill Shorten Quotes
When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been a partier.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
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We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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What troubles me about the 'hostile workplace' category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.
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The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise.
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Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.
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Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.
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It's my life. It just continues to go forward from 'The Apprentice.'
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Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly what it is that you are doing.
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I'm from Holland, and I'm used to rain.
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The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It's like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I'll show up. I'll be there. And if it says 10:00, I'll be on stage at 10:00.
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Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.
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I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983.
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Exercise and eat healthy foods in moderation. I am a vegetarian but that is a personal choice.
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...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.
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I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.
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We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'
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I read a few books but I never really took any lessons. I just listened to records and played along. Initally it's not that easy, but if you do it enough, you find you can actually play things quite easily.
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When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.
