Paul Keating Quotes
A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built.
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.
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To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.
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A friend of mine and I would go to this dirty little bar in Toronto that has karaoke every Tuesday night, and one night, we noticed that the only other person in there was Derek Jeter.
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My niggas stack their money just to spend it'Cause, when you die, you cannot take it with you
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The old often envy the young; when they do, they are apt to treat them cruelly.
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When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.
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People have to be sensitive to - I hate using the word 'celebrities' - people in the spotlight. Because there's so much more than what you see on the cover of a magazine.
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Sometimes reality T.V. can be stressful.
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Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all.
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Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.
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Everything that's cool that happens, I look at my wife and I say, 'We need to enjoy this moment right here! This is really special!'
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I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.
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The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why leaders typically miss the warning signs.
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You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.
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In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground by raising the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright did it so beautifully with the Robie House. The roof becomes almost a new ground.
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I don't listen to music before a race - my coach doesn't like it, he thinks I might lose my focus and concentration.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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My idea of growing old gracefully is probably different to other people's!
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… less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.
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A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built.
