Tony Abbott Quotes
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I love so many styles of music.
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressant medication, or the nation of America itself came into being.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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If your boss asks you why you're comin' in late, you say it's 'cause you stayed late.
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I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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I think I can help others just by my example.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.
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I just try to go out and play as hard as I can and let the results take care of themselves.
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I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
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When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.
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You cannot win an election without a fight.
