Paul Keating Quotes
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
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Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
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In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.
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Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same room participating in a movie with Meryl Streep? Come on!
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TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?
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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
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In back of the outward calm … a small terrified voice cries out: 'I need it. I have to have it or ...' The end of the sentence is lost in chaos. The need is so strong that an illusion is created that it must be fulfilled, or the very existence of the self is threatened.
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Logic is in the eye of the logician.
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
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By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.
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Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.
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When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.
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We are not a typical family that goes for a movie on Sunday or has dinner together every night. But we are strong as the Great Wall of China. Nothing can stop us from supporting one another and enduring each other's pain as well.
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I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
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If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more enlightened he is, the more misery and mischief he will create for you.
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I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
