Warwick Thornton Quotes
Urban artist have to face the stigma not only from white Australia but black Australia too; that's horrific when people say that their art isn't "Aboriginal" if it doesn't have dots or lines or moieties in it.

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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
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No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.
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I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
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Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater.
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Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.
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My hair is very straight - people always think that I've ironed it when I get to set.
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Urban artist have to face the stigma not only from white Australia but black Australia too; that's horrific when people say that their art isn't "Aboriginal" if it doesn't have dots or lines or moieties in it.