Tony Abbott Quotes
Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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I owe everything to France.
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In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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I made a clean version of 'Enter the Ninja' that my mom can listen to.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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For me, I worked so hard to get to where I am and I don't ever want to lose sight of being grounded.
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It was difficult after losing the first two sets and in the third set I was a break down, but something happened and I tried to run and keep fighting and I kept swinging in the third, fourth and fifth sets.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.
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The people of these states were victimized twice. First they were victimized by the hurricane. Second they were victimized by the ineptness of the government response.
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Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.
