Wayne Swan Quotes

If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.

Wayne Swan

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I don't know if it's the way I've been brought up or if it's because I spend so much time away that I appreciate being at home so much.

Jodie Comer

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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

John Dewey

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You really have to do something Bruce Banner-like to me to cause me to go into my righteous indignation mode.

Andrew Breitbart

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Nick hasn't seen me naked - I'm not a person who's constantly flinging my clothes aside and strutting about.

Megan Mullally

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Nothing is more false than the notion that the triumph of Communism is inevitable or that the Communists are steadily pushing the free world into a corner.

Robert Kennedy

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For me, travelling and drawing the world, experiencing as much as possible first hand, has been very important. Making notes, drawing and writing on the move, became second nature.

Michael Foreman

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I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.

Michael Buble

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I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

John Poindexter

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The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Robert Dold

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I'm just going to write whatever I'm going to write, and whatever shelf or section they end up on at the bookstore is just going to be that, and I'll let the marketing people pull their hair out and worry about it.

Mary H.K. Choi

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To get to the office every day, I either take a Lyft or have my wife drop me off. It's about a 15-minute drive from my house to the office.

Logan Green

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I don't need to be married, but I feel married.

Jon Hamm

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