Tony Abbott Quotes
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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I think when you look at the diversity of the readership, all the different people who love comics, I want comics to reflect the real world, and I think Marvel does a good job of trying to do that, but I don't think there's ever an end point when it comes to creating diversity and creating stories that people can relate to.
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There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
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Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects... the list is endless.
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No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions.
