Lionel Murphy Quotes
The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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People trash talk me.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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It's never fun having to bulk up for a job on an action film, then lose weight for another role. I don't actually mind working out, but it's the diet: I'm half-French, so I love my food, and boiled chicken breast for breakfast is not my idea of a good meal.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.
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In college, girls would come up to me: 'I want your calves.' It just makes me laugh. I guess people pay a lot of money to have the types of bodies athletes have.
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It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
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When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.
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At the age of eight, I discovered that I could write songs. My dad used to take them to the notary and register them so that nobody could steal them from me.
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The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.
