"We're going to prevent politics from abusing the parliament and going off playing politics around the country when they should be here at work."

-- Tony Burke

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“Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.”
“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”

Source : Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.5, Beacon Press
“But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.”
“I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem in my life or something I want to work through; if I don't have something like that at the root of the song, then I think I end up not caring about it as much. I gravitate towards some kind of concept or idea or situation that I want to write about. Very often I have to write, rewrite and come at it from an opposite angle...and I end up writing the opposite song that I thought I was going to write.”

Source : "Book Talk: Sloane Crosley hits brothels and clowns in new essays". Interview with Belinda Goldsmith, www.reuters.com. June 23, 2010.
“..Fear is the energy to do your best in a new situation. The feeling of fear (anxiety, nervousness, shyness, or any of its other aliases) is really "preparation energy". It's getting you ready to excel, to succeed, to do your best and to learn the most.”
“As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.”
“It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.”
“We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.”

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