Michael Leunig Quotes

Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the monstrous everyday things that seem like self-evident truths and existential necessities to so many.

Michael Leunig

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I AmUnderstandingEverydayTrySeem

The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: people don't encounter it normally, they don't see it in their big supermarkets, they don't see people smoking in public places, they don't see tobacco vending machines.

Andrew Lansley

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When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

John Muir

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All taxes, except a 'lump-sum tax,' introduce distortions in the economy. But no government can impose a lump-sum tax - the same amount for everyone regardless of their income or expenditures - because it would fall heaviest on those with less income, and it would grind the poor, who might be unable to pay it at all.

Robert J. Shiller

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Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.

Robert Green Ingersoll

FamilyGoodGovernmentUpAnything

The jazz records come out a lot. You find that with many musicians - we don't listen to our own music for relaxation.

Simon Rattle

MusicMusiciansYouFindJazzOut

I was in the back part of the bunker, so I had to carry the whole bunker. It was probably 20 yards.

Trent Dilfer

BackCarryWholePartHadBunker

I really like iconoclastic casting. I really do.

Rod Lurie

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I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.

Roberta Williams

I AmGameProudCareDevelopment

While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home.

Michael Sheen

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Visas represent one bureaucratic obstacle, so to say and, if removed, might increase the inflow of Russian money into the Czech economy. And not only Russian money, but Russian tourists, Russian entrepreneurs and so on.

Milos Zeman

MoneySayEconomyObstacleOnly

We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that.

Joshua Lederberg

BestYouFindOutIndividualVery

Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor.

Dianna Agron

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