Tony Abbott Quotes
I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.
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I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
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Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
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I love Parisian hotels. I usually stay in either Le Bristol, which is gorgeous, or Hotel Paris Rivoli, which is very French and feels like a step back in time. I also love the luxury of Waldorf Astoria hotels.
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I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.
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A liar often smiles subtly while telling a lie; it's an unconscious expression of his delight in getting away with a whopper.
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A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
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Casi no he tocado el barro y soy de barro.
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We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
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It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority.
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It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.
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The best way would be education and kids and all that stuff and then education and working education comes through. Then I started a music school and the music school now teaches kids to play the violin and the viola.
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It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.
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The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools.
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You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.
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I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.
