"I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. Weve got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country."

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Source : "Stateline" with Eliza Blue, www.abc.net.au. March 22, 2010.

Quentin Bryce

#Country Quotes #Children Quotes #Heart Quotes

“The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?”
“All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.”
“I keep writing childrenâ€™s books, I keep making childrenâ€™s books, because I still have them inside of me.”
“It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate ages of the world, but at a time when arts and sciences were at their height.”
“It is a common perception that actors donâ€™t get along.”
“It's always important for me as an actor to reflect human behavior for a sense of reality.”
“The words are all gone, the time's been too long but it's not too late to say I'm sorry to a friend”

Source : Song: Sorry to a Friend
“And so it can be very much in the interest of bank A to sell-short bank B shares, or buy CDSes on bank B, because they have exposure to bank B. It's the responsible thing to do as a fiduciary, and yet if everyone does it at the same time, it's destabilizing because everyone is selling.”

Source : "Q&A With Jim Chanos Part I: 'Greece Is A Prelude'". Interview with Vince Veneziani, www.businessinsider.com. April 13, 2010.

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