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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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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Pakistan is rich in sporting talent, but the only thing needed is to have sincere and honest administrators who should be held accountable by the government. Pakistan should be recognised as a sporting nation and not as a terrorist country.
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Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country.
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To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing.
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It's hard to go back to shooting contemporary apartment interiors after you shoot something like 'Mudbound.'
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But we should not be kowtowing to anybody when it comes to freedom in this country.
