Paul Keating Quotes
Australian Reserve Bank Governor MacFarlane said recently when Paul Volcker broke the back of American inflation it's regarded as the policy triumph of the Western world. When I broke the back of Australian inflation they say, "Oh, you're the fellow that put the interest rates up." Am I not the same fellow that gave them the 15 years of good growth and high wealth that came from it?
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.
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I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.
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That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.
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In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.
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My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.
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I want a further step for me...that's my process of development. I don't want to cut it off. I understand where it's been cut off for other people, and I understand the whole process in that order of things, but I see no way in that isn't a trap, that will let me out again without damaging too much, you know?
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We are safer when communities respect the police and police respect communities.
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Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.
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All political power is a trust.
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Growing up, my earliest memories are listening to Sinatra Christmas albums.
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I don't see myself as particularly highbrow. I am much more populist.
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If you really want to change the world, change kids when they're two.
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I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.
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The credibility has begun to inure in the institution. Keeping inflation low and stable is an important precondition for a healthy and sustained economic growth.
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Australian Reserve Bank Governor MacFarlane said recently when Paul Volcker broke the back of American inflation it's regarded as the policy triumph of the Western world. When I broke the back of Australian inflation they say, "Oh, you're the fellow that put the interest rates up." Am I not the same fellow that gave them the 15 years of good growth and high wealth that came from it?
