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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Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.
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Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.
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Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.
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Some theists, observing that all 'effects' need a cause, assert that God is a cause but not an effect. But no one has ever observed an uncaused cause and simply inventing one merely assumes what the argument wishes to prove.
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I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
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I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.
