Quentin Bryce Quotes
The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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I can always go back to education.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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I can say, hands down, 'Annapolis' is the most challenging film I've ever taken on.
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What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.
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Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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Greater intelligence, wealth and opportunity, for example, allow a person to achieve ends he could not rationally contemplate otherwise.
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The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.
