John Howard Quotes
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can't stop thinking about them. That's violent. Hopefully, it's for the better, but it's a violent thing.
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Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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Derek Jeter used to come to me and try to tell you what Joe Torre is all about, he's a good man, he's this, he's that, but like I tell Derek Jeter, that's you. It's one thing that they treat you a certain way; you don't feel what other people feel.
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You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.
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Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now.
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I was a nerdy kid.
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Only the impossible is worth the effort.
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Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
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I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive.
