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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I remember one point seeing I had like 60-some different cell phones. I know I only use one.
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Do you ask the same questions about the trauma the nation suffers when you are removing a judge as when you are removing a president? ... That answer must be stunningly different when you are asked should the president of the United States be removed and the will of the electorate overturned.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
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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.
