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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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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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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America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I don't feel very good about myself. People always leave me. Nobody can stand me for very long. I wish I could cut my tongue out, or take out the part of my brain that has opinions. Or cares. I wish I could be simple. Be quiet, introverted, or shy. I'm half way in between a wallflower at a party and Elvis Presley. People love one or the other. In between is no place to be.
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The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.
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Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.
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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.
