Michael Leunig Quotes

I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.

Michael Leunig

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Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

Robert Irwin

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It's just fantastic to have someone like the Duchess of Cambridge wear the brand. I think there are often misconceptions about who the brand is for, but it's not just a 20-year-old blonde girl on the beach, and Kate is testament to that.

Matthew Williamson

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The most remarkable thing about Calvin Coolidge is that he served for 67 months, and when he left office, the budget was lower than he came in. In real terms - in nominal terms with vanilla on top - he cut the budget year over year.

Amity Shlaes

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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Ronald Reagan

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I moved to Queens, New York, when I was seven and a half. I went to middle school in a foreign country, but I had so many different kinds of Americans push me along and encourage me. I was very odd. I didn't talk very well. We were poor, and we didn't have any connections, but people showed up and pushed me along.

Min Jin Lee

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I don't like to spend money when I'm traveling. I like to go places like Hawaii and not spend money. I splurge on time.

Jonny Weston

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I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did.

Donna Mills

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I hate hearing me talk when I'm not in character, and I can barely deal with hearing me as a character.

Christopher McCulloch

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We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.

Claudio Hummes

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Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

Bob Geldof

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I'm kind of an old theater guy, so I'm sort of attuned to it. Like, when I go to New York, I go to plays.

Richard Linklater

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Most girls are taught to avoid risk and failure. We're taught to smile pretty, play it safe, get all A's. Boys, on the other hand, are taught to play rough, swing high, crawl to the top of the monkey bars, and then just jump off headfirst.

Reshma Saujani

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