Ted Baillieu Quotes

You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.

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• Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Marriage
  • Clothes
  • Worst

• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • House
  • Man
  • Born

• I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • See
  • Books
  • Fabulous

• We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Idea
  • Secret
  • Valuable

• Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Heart
  • Religion
  • Politics

• Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Children
  • Focus
  • Football

• Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Better
  • Tomorrow

• I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• 'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Mean
  • Safety
  • Punk

• If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Bad
  • Government
  • Rest

• So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Heart
  • Blues

• I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • College
  • King
  • Students

• How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Life
  • Movie

• You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • History
  • Past
  • You

• I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Trying
  • Change
  • Question

• Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Energy
  • Concept
  • Anywhere

• People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • People
  • History
  • Political

• Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Way
  • Fear
  • Challenge

• The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • You

• I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Growing

• Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Know
  • Quality
  • Yourself

• You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.

  

  Ted Baillieu
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