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.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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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.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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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.
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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
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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.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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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.
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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.
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All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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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.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
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Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
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A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
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Penguin became less of a publisher for all different kinds of people and increasingly became the paperback publisher for the best-educated people, those people who shopped at bookstores. That proved perhaps not only to be rather elitist, but it also proved not to be good business.
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That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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.
