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.
Quotes to Explore
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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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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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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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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Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something that you don't believe is right. Living in truth with other people means that you refuse to stay in any situation where you are unhappy with the behavior of another person. You refuse to tolerate it. You refuse to compromise.
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I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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I don't think quotas are necessarily an evil. I think when we look at industry in general back to the '60s and the '50s, the way more diverse people like my dad and mom's generation were able to break into industry was because of affirmation action, because of quotas.
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Real novelists, those we admire, those we consider timeless in their language and character and scene, those who receive accolades for inventive language and form, have writing lives we imagine in specific ways.
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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.
