Tony Abbott Quotes
Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.
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I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.
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Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.
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I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
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I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.
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One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
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There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played - I've taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different.
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I have a phobia of spoons I haven't used one in about 10 years.
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Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.
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Any time you get into the playoffs, it's a huge deal.
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If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.
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It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.
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It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is.
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After an incompletion, you can probably tell the difference.
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My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.
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When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.
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The measure of a man cannot be whether he ever makes mistakes, because he will make mistakes. It's what he does in response to his mistakes. The same is true of companies. We have to apologize, we have to fix the problem, and we have to learn from our mistakes.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.
