Julia Gillard (Julia Eileen Gillard) Quotes

Education's net economic benefits are greater than many other investments.

Julia Gillard

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• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Should
  • Disagreement

• I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Remember
  • America
  • Girl

• All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Life
  • Law
  • Health

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Take

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Live
  • Society
  • Prosperity

• We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Self
  • Race
  • Actions

• I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Bad
  • Very
  • Egypt

• My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Beginning
  • Never
  • Strange

• This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Man
  • Moon
  • Start

• Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Dying
  • Means
  • Alas

• Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Culture
  • Purpose
  • Existence

• As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • History
  • Man
  • Old

• I plunged in, and set up a Twitter account. My first problem was that there were already two Margaret Atwoods on Twitter, one of them with my picture. This grew; I gave commands; then all other Margaret Atwoods stopped together. I like to think they were sent to a nunnery, but in any case they disappeared. The Twitterpolice had got them. I felt a bit guilty.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Up
  • Together
  • Picture

• I miss journalism an awful lot.

  

  Kevin Barry

• I know it's horrible to have to admit that, but I'm not adult enough to take care of a child.

  

  Brigitte Bardot

• We've digressed from the true meaning of life. We have replaced the Creator with money and claim Him in the name of war. We have dishonored our children.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Children
  • Money

• We are aggressively trying to get the word out to parents about how they can tap into this resource.

  

  John Whiting
  • Trying
  • Parents
  • Word

• The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • School
  • Girl
  • Support

• I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Painting

• No, Your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man be­hind a king when I find him.

  

  Andrew Carnegie
  • King

• I think the problem is when people hear 'arts education,' they think, 'I don't want my son to be some painter that's going to be hanging in some museum after he dies. I don't want my daughter to be a struggling artist making no money.' People don't realize it's more than that. It's beautiful. It brings beauty to our lives.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • People
  • Money
  • Beautiful

• Education's net economic benefits are greater than many other investments.

  

  Julia Gillard
  • Education
  • Benefits
  • Investments