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
Quotes to Explore
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky -
I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
Wale -
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 -
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 -
I'm not averse to telling people off.
Damian Lewis -
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
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Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.
Anthony Kennedy -
The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
Ellen Key -
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 -
Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
Marina Abramovic -
Basically, I always wanted to be an author but went through all these other jobs while getting up the nerve to finally go for it with my writing! Thank goodness it worked; who knows what I might have done next?
Claudia Gray -
The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.
Emile Zola
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And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.
Kurt Loder -
Inside 'Star Wars' are values that mean something to people. It's aspirational. It's full of hope.
Kathleen Kennedy -
Unless I can come in in the morning and smile, walk in the lobby and say, 'Good morning!' - if I am stressed - I am not going to do a good job. Everybody is watching us. They are feeding off of our energy.
Angela Ahrendts -
I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.
David Rockefeller -
I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.
Amy Adams -
I never outline my novels before I write. I do have a vague sense of beginning, middle, and end at the outset of each book, but for me, writing has always been a very character-driven process.
Emily Giffin
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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
John Naisbitt -
Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
Rita Mae Brown -
Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler.
Andy Lau -
You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.
Carl Reiner -
I like Bobby Flay's attitude and his approach towards food. I think he's just passionate and very honest. I find him very honest about food and cooking and ingredients and I admire that because I think that it's easy to get away from that for various reasons.
Alex Guarnaschelli -
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