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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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?
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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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I moved all the time as part of a military family, and I just really did not have very many friends. I remember having these feelings of walking into a room and feeling that nobody likes me, or thinking, 'I'm going to have to sit alone at lunch again.'
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I really love secondhand clothes. It's fun to turn them into something new.
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At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.
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I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give them. I'm always on the lookout for teaching poems - poems that inspire me and my students to write poems in response.
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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.
