Jay Weatherill Quotes
Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of our current economic growth - particularly defence and mining - and build on these.
Quotes to Explore
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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I hate competition.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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Humor is a way to deal with stresses. It is a way to cope.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
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I had been very dismissive of popular fiction - in fact, I'd refused to read it. And then I started working on popular fiction, and I realised these books weren't the same as Hemingway, say, but they were good in a different way.
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Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces.
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Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of our current economic growth - particularly defence and mining - and build on these.
