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 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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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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Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.
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Carolyn Maloney led the fight to make sure that DNA evidence kits are processed and passed the Debbie Smith Bill. She, when no one almost would listen to us on the whole issue of the Taliban and its treatment of women, she helped pass the Afghan Women's Empowerment Act.
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I've always found that it's such an emotional experience, trying to find the good parts of a bad character or the bad parts of a good character, and in the end, most of these qualities are already there inside me.
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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.
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I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.
