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Lionel Murphy Quotes

The people of Australia would be staggered to learn that Australia has no national development plan.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: australian
Birth: August 30, 1922 - October 21, 1986

Topics

People Learn Plan Australia Would

The most frightening thing about playing Dick Gregory is I've never done stand-up before, and I had to learn how to be a stand-up comedian, which was a bit of a challenge.

Challenge Learn Done Never Playing

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

Life Marriage Father Mother Parents

I learned a great lesson early on, even before I was really an actor, from that movie 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' that John Hughes made: that you could make a movie that's really, really, really, really funny, and sometimes you can still achieve... making the audience feel very deep emotions as well.

Funny Great Deep Feel You Early

I'm a passionate individual, and sometimes when I have strong feelings about a subject, I feel the need to express myself.

Myself Strong Feel Feelings Need

Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips.

Words Government Lips You Down Tax

I was very quiet, very shy and docile.

Quiet Shy Very Docile

Since we own our bodies, we also inevitably own the effects of our actions, be they good or bad. If we own the effects of our actions, then clearly we own that which we produce, whether what we produce is a bow, or a book - or a murder.

Stefan Molyneux

Good Book Bad Clearly Own Actions

If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.

Man Blame You Back White Land

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.

Parent Would Impulse Did Adopt

Flipboard is really fun because it's like a digital magazine that lets you curate your favorite things and follow your favorite people. I do Instagram but not Vine. I love Vine, but I don't have time to browse through it. So when I'm on YouTube, I'll look up the 'best of Vine' compilations.

Love Time Best Fun People Look

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

Minoru Yamasaki

Building Important Human Human Being

My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.

Life Father New York Rest Horse New

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