Harold Edward Holt Quotes
Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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I'm a '90s baby.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.
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Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.
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Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
