Paul Keating Quotes
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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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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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.
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The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
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I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.
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True art lies in a reality that is felt.
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Nothing would please me more than if they were released in the next few days, but I don't want to raise the hopes of people detained.
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Realize that "I Can't" usually means "I won't"!
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Anybody who cannot learn to hear by feeling will not go very far in church.
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If loving God with all our heart and soul and might is the greatest commandment, then it follows that not loving Him that way is the greatest sin.
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I don't really live the bohemian life. I come to work in Midtown everyday, along with all the work-a-day folk.
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I'm not saying it's the city's fault. But I'm saying it's the city's fault that those two dogs are walking around the city attacking people. And I think that the city should do something about helping her to the best of their ability.
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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
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Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
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You've got yoga, I've got beer. You got overpriced, I got weird.
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We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.
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I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't get published by real publishers at this point, or have to go through two years of trying after writing a novel that's taken them five or six years and simply can't get the thing in print. Or it gets in print and it doesn't get reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and disappears without a trace. I mean, it's terrifying. I don't know how anybody can stand it. It's such an enormous amount of work and the economics of it are really quite brutal.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.
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In the end, rational policy is always good.
