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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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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No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.
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What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.
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I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.
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Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.
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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.
