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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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
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Bernard Leach talked about painting, but we never talked about ceramics in that evening. But at the end of the evening he said to us, "Well," he said, "I've changed my mind, and if you want, you can come back a year from now and apprentice in the workshop."
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The European policy is invariably the maintenance of the status quo, and you will do nothing for the subject races unless we, by taking initiative, make you realize that helping us against the Turks is the lesser of the evils.
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In the end, rational policy is always good.
