Tony Abbott Quotes

We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country.

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• We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Up
  • Business
  • Want

• I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Happy
  • Song
  • Know

• Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Love
  • Feelings

• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

  Nas
  • Country
  • American
  • Me

• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Wife
  • Soup
  • Sharing

• I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Up
  • Light
  • I Can

• Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Deep

• For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Done
  • Water
  • Myself

• I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Think
  • Mistake

• I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • True
  • More
  • Countryside

• We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Balance
  • Ourselves
  • Optimize

• I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • School
  • American
  • High

• I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Work
  • Running
  • Week

• In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Real
  • Service
  • Competition

• The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Good
  • Progress

• My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Good
  • Work
  • Why

• I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • World
  • Hide
  • Hats

• Yes I had to dress up in drag but what fun. And now I feel like a real lady.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Fun
  • Drag
  • Dress Up

• I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Top
  • Pile
  • Gigantic ego

• We have really, really good-looking men who work for our network, and that's never brought into question. Our men dress very well, and look fantastic in a suit, and not once is that ever talked about. I can be called out on the Internet or in newspapers for asking a question, but if a male asked the same question, it would never be a topic.

  

  Erin Andrews
  • Men
  • Internet
  • Fantastic

• Ten Internets ago, when PayPal was started, it was all these tools that no one had built yet to bring commerce to the Internet. My first startup used PayPal.

  

  Harper Reed
  • Internet
  • Commerce
  • PayPal

• We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Internet
  • Policy
  • Implement