"When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Bill Shorten

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“The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.”
“Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to play in the human and divine drama - some persons just a few lines, others whole pages. To refuse to play one's role at all is not the answer. It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.”

Source : William Kurelek, Joan Murray (1983). “Kurelek's vision of Canada”, McClelland & Stewart
“It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so.”

Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin (2015). “The Birds’ Christmas Carol (With Original Illustrations): Children’s Classic”, p.14, e-artnow
“Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.”
“I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants came foundering down. I have watched shores slip and perish, the channels silt and change; what was beach become a swamp and a headland tumble into the sea. An island has eroded in silent pain since my boyhood, and reefs have become islands. Yet the old people used to say, People pass away, but not the land. It remains forever. Maybe that is so. The land changes. The land continues. The sea changes. The sea remains.”

Source : Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.336, LSU Press
“The job of art is to chase ugliness away.”

Source : "The U2 Covers - No. 32: 'Love Bombing With U2'". www.hotpress.com. July 18, 2017.
“Somebody's values and their morals are shown best in the way they treat others and their children, and the world in general. It's not necessarily the way that they respond sexually and emotionally to the person they choose to live with.”
“I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket.”

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