Tony Abbott Quotes
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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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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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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I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters. It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.
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At my confirmation, where you get the Holy Spirit, I came down the stairs at my party and had torn, like, 80 holes in my pantyhose and said I had the Holy Spirit, and just would do things like that all the time.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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Jerry Rice had won two Super Bowls already by the time he got to his ninth year in the league. That's what it's all about: winning that ring.
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I think the past is not important. For every player, for every single player, the past stay there. If you did well in the past, OK.
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I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang and what I sang and what I wore. I wanted to write a book about an American family, the family that has produced me. The longer I live, the more I realise the incredible support and love we were given as children.
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We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.
