Nick Minchin Quotes
I have said consistently in my 16-and-a-half years in the parliament, I have always supported the party room's decision and the party room is the ultimate authority on these matters. I don't expect that to change.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.
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It's nice to be needed.
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I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.
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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.
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I've always looked old for my age.
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I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.
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If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.
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It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.
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Why should we add your book to the atomic weapons arrayed against us by our enemies. Publication of your book would help our enemies.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.
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We relate comics to the main super-heroes, but it's a great medium through which all sorts of stories are told.
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From a child, I knew I didn't have the face I wanted to have. My mother was a baroness. She was from Berlin; she was a silent movie actress and friends with Marlene Dietrich. So she knew all about film make-up and prosthetics and stuff like that and what they used to do in those days. And she taught me all that as a child.
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Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
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I don't think I'm known for my gifts - I'm known for my gall. I don't want to be just a famous person - I'm too old.
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It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
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We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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I find weddings too procedural sometimes. I just want a big, fun party.
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I have said consistently in my 16-and-a-half years in the parliament, I have always supported the party room's decision and the party room is the ultimate authority on these matters. I don't expect that to change.
