Paul Keating Quotes
In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.
Quotes to Explore
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.
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When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.
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It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?
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I like to relax a lot the night before a race. I like having people around me. I don't like being on my own, particularly. Music helps psych you up, too.
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I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs.
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Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.
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To act is to rest.
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A child growing up in an excessively safe environment may never learn that he is one - not until he gets married and has a wife to tell him so.
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I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.
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Biblical movies need not sermonize, just be honest to the foundational story. As powerful as the message is for people of faith, it's really great storytelling.
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One word — one stone in a cold river. One more stone— I'll need many stones if I'm going to get over.
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Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?
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In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.
