Christopher Pyne Quotes
And I think the Donald Trump phenomenon is a real problem for the United States, making their democracy look kind of weird.
Christopher Pyne
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
Bam Margera
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From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.
Narendra Modi
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Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.
Flume
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My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.
Ian Gomez
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I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
Jack Keane
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Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.
Yair Lapid
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I've been doing acting since I was 6 years old, and I don't know how to do anything besides act and sing. Back in the day, you had to do it all - you had to sing, dance, and act. I'm from the old school where that is what I was trained to do, and that's what I am expected to do, so it's weird when people ask me to choose.
Kat Graham
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Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.
Ha-Joon Chang
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I've spent so much time with iambic pentameter that I can now recognize it when I hear it in conversation or a movie - it's like a weird, useless superpower.
Ian Doescher
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Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
J. J. Abrams
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I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.
Walter Cronkite
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We know it because democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.
Oscar Wilde
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Our very success, gained you will agree by skill, will draw more people than ever to see it. And that will benefit many more clubs than Rangers. Let the others come after us. We welcome the chase. It is healthy for us. We will never hide from it. Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity. No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. That has been the philosophy of the Rangers since the days of the gallant pioneers.
Bill Struth
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I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.
Gabriel Iglesias
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Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.
Jeff Buckley
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And I think the Donald Trump phenomenon is a real problem for the United States, making their democracy look kind of weird.
Christopher Pyne
