John Howard Quotes
I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
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Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.
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It's always been hard work for us to manufacture in the U.K. It's not a particularly profitable place for us.
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In 1906, I developed pleurisy and was unable to get into condition. So I asked for my release and obtained it. So ended my Major League career.
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You swore you wouldn't shout. If it's not your punch, then it's your pout.
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I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.
