Deborah Mailman Quotes

Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn't know you had.

Deborah Mailman

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• I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Together
  • Church

• I'm not politically correct.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Politically Correct

• I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Up
  • Done
  • Know

• The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

  

  Kate Capshaw
  • Nature
  • Story
  • Lovers

• I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • United States
  • Plans
  • Almost

• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Family
  • School
  • Think

• Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Song
  • Man
  • Crazy

• I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Health

• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Help
  • Religion
  • Practical

• If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • History
  • Hate

• In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Hope
  • New
  • Recovery

• I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Time
  • Place
  • Interested

• The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Way

• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Racing
  • Birds

• My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Up
  • Time
  • Career

• You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• I think it's very dangerous, the idea of celebrity - you have to be constantly controversial to maintain the status of celebrity. Reality TV is the death of entertainment - it's just mindless TV but popular because of its voyeuristic nature, and people are very voyeuristic.

  

  David Suchet
  • People
  • Nature
  • Death

• My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Father

• There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Present
  • Road
  • Fire

• I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Wisdom
  • Thing
  • Possess

• Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Education

• Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You discover you have reserves of energy you didn't know you had.

  

  Deborah Mailman
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Motherhood