Denis Napthine Quotes
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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My sympathies have always been for working-class people.
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One man's holy is another woman's sublime.
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The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
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But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing.
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I'm an actor, because I get to see other sides of life and I get to be other people and it excites me so much.
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I think the people of Victoria are smart, intelligent people.
