Jay Weatherill Quotes
A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.
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Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
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We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.
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I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.
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The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
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Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
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I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.
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My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.
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Any normal candidate who mocked the disabled or made crude reference to a woman's menstrual cycle or dabbled in 9/11 conspiracy theories would be out of the race. Trump's fans remain. And wait for more.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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What works for one writer may not work for another. There are as many methods as there are writers. Were you to live to a grand old age, you would still never have enough time to try them all.
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Australia is always a place that is dear to me; it is always my second home, and I try to get there as often as I can, but it is not next door, you know.
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A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.
