Tony Abbott Quotes
Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.
Quotes to Explore
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.
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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.
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Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
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The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.
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A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.
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Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.
