Tony Abbott Quotes
There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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My parents are high school sweethearts.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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Golf and dating don't mix.
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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
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It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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A day with my kids is the best day.
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It is a changing world with changing opportunities.
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One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.
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The real great news is, in the piracy capitals of the world, Netflix is winning. We are pushing down piracy in those markets by getting the access.
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A healthy economy is largely a result of a reasonable balance between consumption today and consumption deferred, and it's pretty clear that balance has been ridiculously out of whack for a while.
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I love the Ronettes, the 'do-run-run-run' pop stuff. I love the lyrics, having 'blue, blue blue' being repetitive.
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All you can do is play how you know how to play.
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I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.
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Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
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Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.
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The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.
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There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!
