Bill Shorten Quotes
Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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You are not waiting for your life to start. It's going on right now.
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I make a timeless music. I think I've made my mark as a lyricist and as an innovator and as a tastemaker.
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One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.
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I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.
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Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.
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Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.
