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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The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say he returns to clay but too much walking fills you up with clay far sooner (or buries bits of you along the road) and brings your death half-way to meet you. It is not easy to know what is the best way to move yourself from one place to another.
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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 British say "to put the world to rights." I've discovered that that's not the way Americans say it and people scratch their heads and say, "Funny... what does he mean by that?" It means to fix the thing, to make it all better again.
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Like every young man growing up in the puritanical Eisenhower 1950s, I had a hell of a time getting laid. I suppose that's why I was always intrigued by, and terribly envious of men who had no trouble at all in bedding a vast variety of desirable women.
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We find in most of Western countries slow economic growth, which means that jobs are being created slowly and that generous social benefits systems developed in the 1960s and 1970s are often unaffordable. So in one way or another, all of these countries face this problem.
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Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.
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My name is Wyatt Earp! It all ends now!
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In the end, rational policy is always good.