Christopher Pyne Quotes
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
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A secret is a secret in my mind.
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During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
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As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
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True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.
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The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal was a goal. The second was an own goal. The third was straight after half-time. They defend like mad and they catch us on the break.
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The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.
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I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that person, a readership of X millions, about things I think are private.
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Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
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Whether you win a grand final by one goal or six goals, a win is a win is a win.
