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.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Up
  • Best
  • Winning

• I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Shopping

• 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.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Time
  • Singing
  • Old

• 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.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • Children
  • Mom

• Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Order
  • Big
  • Out

• The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Freedom
  • Single
  • Spiritual

• 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.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

  

  Oscar Levant

• The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.

  

  Jason Alexander

• To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

  

  Mason Cooley

• When you're an actor, you do get involved with your characters - your emotional life is tied up with theirs, and so is your physical life.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Emotional

• I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.

  

  Kohei Uchimura
  • Memories
  • Gold
  • Bitter

• I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Up
  • Small

• If I had a day to myself I would just play video games with my brothers.

  

  Jeremy Lin

• 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.

  

  Jennifer Ellison
  • People
  • Depression

• 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.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Career

• I definitely love to work, and I'm loving being a mommy, so I'd like to try to balance both.

  

  Annie Wersching
  • Work
  • Balance

• 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.

  

  Kirsten Sweetland
  • People
  • Up
  • Advice

• White artists have made millions of dollars off music they stole from black artists. I don't blame all the white artists. I'm a huge Stevie Ray Vaughn fan, and he was always very gracious about where he learned his music. But a lot of the time, you'd think the white guys thought it up. Hey, hasn't anyone heard of Muddy Waters?

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• As long as we remain committed to holding high our individuals of supreme finish, others will be inspired to loose themselves of the gravity of the waywards and downtroddens.

  

  John Ridley
  • Long
  • High
  • Inspired

• This essential coalition between royal military power and often dubious supernatural authority anticipated a similar alliance between the scientists and mathematical games theorists with the higher agents of government today, and was subject to similar corruptions, miscalculations, and hallucinations.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Power
  • Today
  • Military

• The wild open-market theory that died in 1929 had a run of just over thirty years. Communism, a complete melding of religious, economic, and global theories, stretched to seventy years in Russia and forty-five years in central Europe, thanks precisely to the intensive use of military and police force.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • Religious
  • Military
  • Police

• This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Celebrity

• 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.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Military
  • Police
  • Scheme