Paul Keating Quotes
You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.
Quotes to Explore
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
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I want to be remembered as the football player I was. The private person is nobody's business.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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My father is my inspiration.
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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When we give trust, we receive trust. And people who trust us pay attention to us.
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Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don’t realize it. It’s very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own. As for radio, I had a wonderful teacher. I was hugely lucky. I didn’t want to play a robot, but the situation was an object lesson in fate taking over.
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An education is meaningless unless it equips students to have a better life.
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In general, I think it's an advantage politically to keep people guessing.
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At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'
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A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
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Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.
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I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the whole time, and so on. This was an interesting experience, which has had some beneficial effects for me.
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I never wanted to see another quiz show.
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You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.
