Kevin Rudd Quotes
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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Now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
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I started really thinking a lot about where does a country go when we stop being able to speak to each other, when a nation stops being able to solve problems because its ideological differences become so deep that it just becomes dysfunctional.
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It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.
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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
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But we should not be kowtowing to anybody when it comes to freedom in this country.