Andrew Forrest Quotes

Individuals and communities need to clearly tell government if they want parity for First Australians. Only this will overcome the vested interests of governments and administrators and see these practical, inexpensive solutions for what they are: a way to finally achieve results, with the strength of will from each of us.

Andrew Forrest

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• There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Believe
  • Friends
  • Ambition

• I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Done
  • You
  • Sexy

• I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Father
  • Lies

• Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Me
  • Film
  • Level

• Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Me
  • Influence
  • Big

• An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Good
  • Peace
  • Perfect

• I'm letting competition drive me, and when competition drives me, I don't think anyone can compete with me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Think
  • Me
  • Competition

• Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement.

  

  Babe Paley
  • Important
  • Most
  • Grooming

• I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Bad
  • Horrible
  • Remembering

• This girl wanted me to experience something I'd never experienced. She tried three times to get me high. Finally it worked, and I had the most incredible sex I'd ever had.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Experience
  • Girl
  • Me

• It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • People
  • Important
  • Team

• We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Trying
  • Energy
  • Understanding

• I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • Think
  • Space

• Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Imagination
  • Exercise
  • Blessed

• I don't know how long I would've stayed, to be honest.

  

  Larry Page
  • Long

• Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Money

• My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Mother
  • Passion
  • Courage

• We go to movies to be taken away to another place, to be dazzled, to dream, to hopefully be filled with wonder. The design of the world and the look of the film is all in service of trying to create that feeling of wonder in the audience.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • World
  • Trying
  • Dream

• Unsuccessful people think about what they don’t want most of the time. They talk about problems, listen to news & gossip, & spend their time blaming circumstances, situations & others. Successful people think about what they want & how they will get it. They are intensely focused on their goals & the information needed to help obtain them. Which person are YOU?

  

  Darren Hardy
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Helping

• I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Woman
  • Egg
  • I Loved

• Individuals and communities need to clearly tell government if they want parity for First Australians. Only this will overcome the vested interests of governments and administrators and see these practical, inexpensive solutions for what they are: a way to finally achieve results, with the strength of will from each of us.

  

  Andrew Forrest