Tony Abbott Quotes

I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... it their virginity is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.

Tony Abbott

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• I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

  

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• My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

  

  Abel Ferrara
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• Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

  

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• My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

  

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• There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

  

  Dan Webster
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• I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.

  

  Campbell Scott
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• Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Time
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• After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Strong
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• I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

  

  Maggie Q
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  • Quality
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• Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Everyone
  • System

• I think 2001 was the year Al Jazeera started to play an international role, in a way. Because in 2001, we were the only TV station located inside Kabul, and every image out of the war in Afghanistan, the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, came through Al Jazeera screen.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
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• The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• Good men must not obey the laws too well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.

  

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• I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'

  

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• I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
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  • Like
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• Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Best
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  • Page

• Tyrannical fathers, oppressed daughters, and repugnant suitors are scattered throughout English history.

  

  Nancy Atherton
  • Fathers
  • Daughters
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• It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that we reshape and refine and define ourselves with, is the gift I was given. The ability to communicate what others feel but cannot fully express, the passing down and around of songs and stories, from Pete Townshend to Joey Ramone to me, to the audiences who take the time and effort to support our work and give us a way to support ourselves -- I'm thinking this is what I am supposed to be doing.

  

  Bob Mould Hüsker Dü
  • Music
  • Support
  • Gift

• True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

  

  Augustus William Hare
  • Ignorance
  • Merits
  • Estimate

• I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... it their virginity is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Gift
  • Daughters
  • Virginity