Tony Abbott Quotes
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
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The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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When I don't have red, I use blue.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.
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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
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I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions.
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I really don't think of myself as a science writer.
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I'm usually cast by people who are oddly goofy.
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It's great - that's the best part about being famous is that people want to get to know me. People come up to me and introduce themselves, and I make friends, and then I meet their friends. It seems like I have a very happy and comfortable social life, which is something I never had when I was younger.
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Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.
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Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.
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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.
