Tony Abbott Quotes
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow.
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
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Travelling was a big part of my childhood and one that I value very much. In some respects, I can't help but be a bit of a gypsy as an adult. I get fidgety if I'm in one place for longer than three months.
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He who is contented is rich.
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There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
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For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.
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I think the media can definitely show more diversity - different sizes of women, different colours of women, just more diversity in general.
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I think of the pop music that I've made in the past and hear on the radio as candy bars. And I was really good at making candy bars.
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The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.
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There's a country spread out in the sky, a credulous carpet of rainbows and crepuscular plants: I move toward it just a bit haggardly, trampling a gravedigger's rubble still moist from the spade to dream in a bedlam of vegetables.
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I've signed many documents as president and CEO as required by law. I signed every single document that we were required to file - every single one of them.
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I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
