Nick Xenophon Quotes

I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.

Nick Xenophon

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• If I could have anything - you know, and this is across the board for any presidential candidate - I would have a greater acknowledgment of history in our policy and in our affairs.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • History
  • You
  • Know

• My kids know the importance of being active – and that's why teaming up with the USTA was such an organic fit for me. They are making strives to get families outside – and using tennis as a way to get kids to stay active.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Families

• Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Time
  • Dream

• I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Pink
  • Favourite
  • Colour

• My wife was diagnosed with lupus 16 or 17 years ago, and that's how I kinda got involved in it. I just finished my fifth annual Bobby Hatfield Classic Golf Tournament, and happily I can report that we raised over $52,000. Through the years we've raised not only through the golf tournament, but through other charitable concerts, we've raised over $600,000.

  

  Robert Lee Hatfield
  • Wife
  • Golf
  • I Can

• Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Storm

• Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Up
  • Important
  • Living

• Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • School

• Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Men
  • Jesus

• I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was enlightened when he destroyed the house of body and soul into which he would otherwise have been forever reborn. This is clearly antinatalism.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Soul
  • House
  • Strong

• The perfect guy is not the one who has the most money or the most handsome one you'll meet. He is the one who knows how to make you smile and will take care of you each and everyday until the end of time.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Time
  • Money
  • Guy

• Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you.

  

  Burgess Meredith
  • Fool
  • Tone
  • Fruitcake

• but even the facts do not always tell the truth

  

  Paul Auster
  • Facts

• I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Want

• In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits... There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Time
  • Camera
  • Perform

• I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.

  

  Nick Xenophon
  • Jobs
  • Interest
  • Deals