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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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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.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
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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.
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I'm letting competition drive me, and when competition drives me, I don't think anyone can compete with me.
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Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement.
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I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.
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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.
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We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.
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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.
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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.
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I don't know how long I would've stayed, to be honest.
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Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
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That's one thing I get neurotic about: I need my soup to be crazy hot.
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India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.
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Be content with an ordinary life.
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I had learnt to seek intensity — more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
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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.
