Paul Keating Quotes
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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No one person is an island.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
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It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!
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Fear controls you.
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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
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I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.
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The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, just full. Blessed is the woman who knows her own limits.
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It was only after I made my Duleep Trophy debut did I think I had a realistic chance to play for India. I scored a double hundred, and I realised that I had the potential to play for my country because I played the best bowlers in the country at that time.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.
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Good economics is good politics.
