Paul Keating Quotes

We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine that these things could be done to us.

Paul Keating

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• I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Doing

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• I don't care about revenues.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Care
  • About

• I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • Man
  • Black

• I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Good
  • Women
  • Health

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Religious

• I'm not averse to telling people off.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Telling
  • Off

• On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Lived
  • Loser
  • Tombstone

• Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Age
  • First
  • Ever

• I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Thought
  • Going
  • Surgeon

• Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Rain
  • Building
  • Count

• The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Life
  • High

• Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Cutting

• The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Experience

• I want people to hear really exciting music played by the best, but in a context where they can clap when they want to, chase their toddlers, drink beer, take photos, get lost in the music and generally be themselves. And because a field has no rules, it's the perfect place to create unlikely combinations of musical genres.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • People
  • Music
  • Lost

• Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Understanding

• We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.

  

  H. Allen Smith
  • Believe
  • Laughter
  • Healthy

• The children of the prophets of the Lord,Prince, priest, and people, spurned by zealot hate.Hounded from sea to sea, from state to state,The West refused them, and the East abhorred.No anchorage the known world could afford.

  

  Emma Lazarus
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.

  

  Bruno Heller
  • Time
  • Trying

• Love at first sight is different when you're 32 than when you're 22. In your early 20s, you fall in love after three weeks.

  

  Eric Dane
  • Different
  • Fall

• Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.

  

  Uesugi Kenshin
  • Life
  • Live
  • Death

• We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine that these things could be done to us.

  

  Paul Keating
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Leadership