Alexander Downer Quotes
I'm not going into personal details of meetings I have with anybody, be it John Howard or President Bush or President Putin or President Yeltsin, in years gone by, whoever it may be, I'm not going into that.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
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I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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'Colors' is pretty good. It takes you inside the cop car bit. I like reality myself. I like reality-based kind of movies.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.
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If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.
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All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.
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I'm not going into personal details of meetings I have with anybody, be it John Howard or President Bush or President Putin or President Yeltsin, in years gone by, whoever it may be, I'm not going into that.
