Tony Abbott Quotes
There may not be a great job for Aboriginal people but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.
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I am very grateful for the dedicated work and intellectual contributions of generations of talented postdocs, students and research assistants without whom none of the work from my laboratory would have been possible.
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You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.
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The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.
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Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.
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I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.
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I'm always having to be told to brush my hair.
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We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect looking. Frankly, the stuff left to rot in the storeroom is more beautiful to me than the perfect carrot. I'm a gnarly carrot kind of guy.
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I'm used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
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As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
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There may not be a great job for Aboriginal people but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.
