Tony Abbott Quotes
Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good paid parental leave scheme.

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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.
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When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
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The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.
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To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
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I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.
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I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.
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If I had a day to myself I would just play video games with my brothers.
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I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.
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I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.
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I definitely love to work, and I'm loving being a mommy, so I'd like to try to balance both.
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That's something I never want to do: I never want to think I know it all, because I don't. There's always more people with more advice, and I just want to soak all that up and make my sporting toolbox as full as I can get it.
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All of my life, I've been told no. That I was too poor, too short, too black. I enjoy it when people underestimate me.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I don't believe in playing just one sport. I believe it results in burnout, and each sport trains your body in a different way.
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My parents never pushed me towards music. I feel like, growing up in a musical household and always being surrounded by it, I was always kind of a performer child. I remember my parents would have guests over, and they would bring their kids, and I would make sure that we were ready to put a show on.
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Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good paid parental leave scheme.