Tony Abbott Quotes
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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I like to wear tight jeans. Most of my stuff is pretty slim fit.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
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By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.
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When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
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In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.
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I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related.
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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I'm the kind of person where I look to myself a lot on how I can get better. What little, nuanced differences can I make?
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I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these.
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Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
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Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
