Tony Abbott Quotes

I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

Tony Abbott

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• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • American
  • Impact

• The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Political
  • Party

• I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Hate
  • Name
  • Annoying

• Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Fight
  • See
  • Before

• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Dark
  • Aggressive
  • Aggression

• I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Me
  • Always
  • Try

• 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movie
  • Amazing
  • Brilliant

• Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Balance
  • Tax
  • Budget

• My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.

  

  Zendaya
  • School
  • Parents
  • Helping

• Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Life
  • Good
  • Science

• I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Great
  • Like
  • Artist

• Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Time
  • Always
  • Preacher

• Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beautiful
  • Waiting
  • Brave

• I'm gonna stay an album guy. In fact, concept albums are really blowing my mind right now, because if you want to promote an album, think about it - a concept album might be the way to go.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Guy

• Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Man
  • Meaning

• My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • America
  • Hero
  • Captain

• For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Why
  • Education
  • Support

• I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.

  

  Ben Hogan
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sun

• Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have.

  

  Jim McKay
  • Good
  • Kids

• Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.

  

  Lee Haney
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Volunteer

• I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Kids
  • Human
  • Public Life