Tony Abbott Quotes
I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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If I could marry my motorcycle, I'd roll her right up to the altar.
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I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
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One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
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I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.
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I have so many goals and aspirations that sometimes I lose myself.
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One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.
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When I came to Yahoo! in 2012, I came because I really wanted to work hard. I thought it was a great challenge.
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As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.
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This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.
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Competition, ... the best place in the world to trade electronically by 2002.
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I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
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The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.
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I hated high school. It was a prison.
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You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
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That was in 1994, July, 1994, and I can remember that like it was yesterday too because it was the culmination of a childhood dream to finally be laying on the launch pad inside a space shuttle and getting ready to be launched into space. The impression of going into a space shuttle is that it looks like a brand new simulator. We spend so many hours inside a simulator that everything is very familiar. Every switch, the seats, the way things work, but the vehicle, the actual spacecraft looks brand new because it hasn't been used nearly as much as the simulators.
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Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.
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All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.
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I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
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Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to do so. Our system is quite good at producing reliable theorems that can be solidly backed up. It's just that the reliability does not primarily come from mathematicians formally checking formal arguments; it comes from mathematicians thinking carefully and critically about mathematical ideas.
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I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.
