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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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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While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.
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Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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The government of Iraq has to be from the people of Iraq and by the people of Iraq, of course with the support of the coalition and with the support of the United Nations and of the international community.
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Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government.
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Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.
