Malcolm Turnbull Quotes

The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.

Malcolm Turnbull

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• Money
• Job
• Bad
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• Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Wall
  • Trump
  • Down

• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Story
  • Yourself
  • Surprise

• From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Job
  • Age
  • Door

• In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Experience
  • True
  • Emotional

• White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Girl

• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Idea
  • Memory
  • Eternity

• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Today
  • Road
  • End

• All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Energy
  • Dependent
  • Peninsula

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Teacher
  • Yoga
  • Swim

• I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Technology
  • Company
  • Retail

• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Race

• I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Beauty

• I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Believe
  • Person
  • Genuine

• And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Green

• I would love to work with Nickleback. I think they're an incredible band. One of my favorites.

  

  JoJo
  • Work
  • Band

• No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Life
  • Men
  • Wisdom

• People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Different
  • Day

• I've got friends in bands who seem like they're always on tour, even still. It may be in some people's blood. I'm sure some bands do it just to earn a living or for the experience.

  

  Chris Reifert Autopsy
  • People
  • May
  • Band

• The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • People
  • Money
  • Job