Andrew Forrest Quotes

When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

Andrew Forrest

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How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be brought to bear, habitually and steadily, in counteracting the fatal tendency of the government to the absolute and despotic control of the numerical majority?

John C. Calhoun

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A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.

Joey Lauren Adams

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One thing that I have learnt from many senior actors is that you can never take anything for granted. Whether one is working with the best director or a first-time director, every experience teaches you a lot.

Sidharth Malhotra

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I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

Shirley MacLaine

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I spent a lot of times sitting in big rooms full of a lot of men and executives thinking, 'What would Oprah say right now?' and trying to channel that as hard as I could. And mostly that was just about having the confidence. If this woman did it, it can be done. And there's no reason for anybody to stop you.

Shonda Rhimes

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I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.

Tracy Chapman

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Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

Christopher Lasch

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'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

Brenda Lee

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This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

Philip K. Dick

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One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Thomas Mann

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'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.

Richard Flanagan

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Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

Mario Cuomo

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