Michael Leunig Quotes

At last, after completing year 12, I failed the great final examination, repeated the following year and failed again even more dismally than before. This was not an easy thing to do. My mates did the simple thing in the first place and mainly passed with honours and went on to have remarkably successful lives.

Michael Leunig

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I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives.

Jim Coleman

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It's surreal working with people you admire. I don't think it ever goes away, no matter how human people are; there's always that moment of 'Oh wow, that's still George Clooney!' But I find that the most talented people tend to be the nicest.

Max Minghella

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You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay.

John Linder

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I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die.

Stephen Evans

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All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

Sophie Hannah

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The only way to cover up a lie? Keep lying.

Tomi Lahren

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Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.

Michael Specter

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I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

Little Richard

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The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.

Josh Billings

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Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.

Jarvis Cocker

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There has to be some decorum left in politics and in American journalism as well. Our husbands are the candidates.

Cindy McCain

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If I'm in a state about a book, I'll get up at 6 A.M. and write before breakfast, but usually I'll start afterwards and then work a full day with a break for lunch.

Claire Tomalin

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