Tony Abbott Quotes

We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

Tony Abbott

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• In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Beginning

• Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Feel
  • White
  • Just Because

• I always thought I should be treated like a star.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Always
  • Star
  • Thought

• I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Cool

• America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.

  

  Jackie Walorski
  • America
  • Words
  • Same

• I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Story
  • Young
  • Lead

• If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Why
  • History
  • City

• Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Men
  • Women
  • Attitude

• I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • People
  • Star
  • Sweet

• When you're from another country, you want to spend time with your family. All your family can't come here. All your friends can't come here. You spend so much time here, you want to go there, too.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Time
  • Country
  • Family

• I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • Think
  • Space

• I was only an aspiring dictator. I was never a real dictator.

  

  Augusto Pinochet
  • Real

• Friends,

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Friends

• On a film set, everything's done for you. You get to a stage where you can't even remember the last time you made yourself a sandwich. The crazy thing is that, as actors, we're trying to portray the human condition, but we're often not living in reality.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Done

• We're living in hard times.

  

  Antonio Banderas

• Working at a restaurant is a tough gig.

  

  Kevin McCarthy

• School was unbelievably painful. It was five years of being pretty sad.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Sad

• I thought [Johnny Wujek] was really cute. And so, I was super shy about getting naked in front of him. I didn't want to show him my goods...because I thought he might be straight.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Cute
  • Straight
  • Johnny Wujek

• I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Work
  • Photography
  • Charity

• I loved the theatre-my dad gave me many plays and books to read. The dramatic form just spoke to me.

  

  Danny Burstein
  • Book
  • Dad
  • Play

• Anybody else think that was weird?” Shane asked as they got into the car. Eve sent him an exasperated glance; the three of them were, of course, in the backseat. Amelie had the front, with Michael. “Ya think? In general, or in particular?” “Weird that we got through the entire thing, and I didn’t have to hit anybody.” There was a moment of silence. Michael said, as he started the car, “You’re right, Shane. That is strange.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Car
  • Weird
  • Silence

• Let's face it. To win 300 games, you have to win 15 games a year for 20 years. Not many guys are going to want to pitch 20 years.

  

  Don Sutton
  • Games
  • Guys
  • Pitch

• It would have been very difficult. As I said, the rules ... but if the rules were put in place back when Michael Jordan was in his prime - no hand-checking, the game was more geared toward offense, wanting to promote scoring in the game - he could have probably got close. He did score 69.

  

  Scottie Pippen
  • Hands
  • Difficult
  • Games

• We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Games
  • Blame
  • Excuses