Tony Abbott Quotes
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
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Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
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I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.
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Frozen, right? But to others, it looks like you're calm as could be. That's why some of the others tease you so mercilessly sometimes. They think you're made of stone, and they want to break in and touch the human feelings. They just don't know that when you seem most stony, that's when you're the most frightened and breakable.
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I did all my fighting before the film started. I fought for the best director, the best lighting man. I was always conscious of how I looked.
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It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes. As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected the compiler of having asked leading questions, or of having edited the correspondence in corroboration of what he had latently resolved to see.
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Neuro-rational Physicalism is premised on the neuro-biological foundation of human nature, which implies that thoughts, perceptions or emotions correspond to a physical reaction in the brain.
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It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.
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You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
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One of the gratifying things, I think, about the end of my presidency even though admittedly my successor ran against a lot of what we stood for, is when you look at the individual issues and the progress that we've made on a lot of those issues, we got the support of a pretty decent majority.
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I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
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I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.
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We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.
