Jay Weatherill Quotes
By and large we have got to find the good leaders to work with to make sure that we build the strength in these communities. Simply issuing edicts from Canberra isn't going to solve issues on the APY lands.
Quotes to Explore
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
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When I see something, I go for it.
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In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.
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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
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The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
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It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.
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For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
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By and large we have got to find the good leaders to work with to make sure that we build the strength in these communities. Simply issuing edicts from Canberra isn't going to solve issues on the APY lands.
