Quentin Bryce Quotes
I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I never said half the things I said.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.
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Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.
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I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
