Tony Abbott Quotes
I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.
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Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
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God hears a mother's prayer.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.
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Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
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When you speak the truth, people realize that.
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I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit.
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I can't rank anything. I mean, how could anyone possibly say what their favourite piece of music is? I don't have the ability or the desire to categorise things of that nature.
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Of course we've lost so many superstars who've made jazz what it is. We've lost so many musicians who created new things and changed the way we think about music and who took jazz to a new level. So jazz is suffering from that. But we still have a lot of incredible people playing jazz in the world. We have a lot of people leading the way.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.
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I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.
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I think that the sheer fact that music can raise certain questions or put topics on the agenda has in itself already an effect. Just like any other art of cultural expression can do that - books, films, photos, painting - it can bring people together who share certain ideals, who don't find their ideas expressed properly, or even expressed at all, in the mainstream media.
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I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.
