Paul Keating Quotes
If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.

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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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Defending peace is the duty of all.
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I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.
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The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
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Gay marriage passed in New York because four Republican legislators crossed party lines. They did it in part because they had true bipartisan financial support.
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Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
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It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.
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I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
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In any long string of letters, one can find countless anomalies that will seem like convincing proofs of hidden meaning to the mind that wants to believe that the text is somehow special. Numerological tricks, for example, can demonstrate that William Shakespeare wrote the 'King James Bible.'
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.
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... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.