Michael Leunig Quotes

A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny island where her main work has been focused, she has brought me many funny and beautiful stories over the years.

Michael Leunig

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Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart.

John Ortberg

HeartThinkYouSinOutCancer

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

John Major

PeaceMindPresidentWhateverPretty

I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest.

Anna Kournikova

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I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

Michael Chang

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In '77 there was no Internet, there was no Twitter or Facebook, and I think that, without being some old git who hates anything new, people's attention spans are too short. Back then you had 'Top Of The Pops' and 'Melody Maker,' and you had to make the effort to go to a show so that you absorbed the culture of music.

Steve Jones

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My life reads more like Proust than a tabloid.

Stellan Skarsgard

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Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't.

Stevie Nicks

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You can only give someone your best opinion.

Trevor Jackson

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Jesus is the only Savior, but not everybody who is saved by Him is aware that He is the one who is doing the saving.

Tony Campolo

DoingHimOnlyAwareWhoHe

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

Mikaela Shiffrin

GoodMindThinkYourStimulate

The form of computers has never been important, with speed and performance being the only things that mattered.

Jonathan Ive

PerformanceComputersSpeedImportant

A lot of my writer friends live near me, and that makes people think we just hang around with one another in cafes, trading work and discussing 'Harper's' and what not. But I rarely see them. We're home working.

Colson Whitehead

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