Quentin Bryce Quotes
Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.
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It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
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It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.
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Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.
