Bob Hawke Quotes
My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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I don't like possessions.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
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My favorite movie of all time is 'Home Alone 3.'
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If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.
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I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.
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My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.
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My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.
