"There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan."

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

Malcolm Turnbull

#Dumb Quotes #Trying Quotes #Down And Quotes

“I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.”
“The first thing that jumps out in my mind is David versus Goliath. That's one of the first stories we ever learn as kids. That's one of the most inspirational stories about courage. David stood in the face of terrible odds and defeated the giant. I love reading that story to my boys. Being courageous is doing something isn't easy or fun but you do it because it's the right thing to do.”
“Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.”

Source : Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]
“Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.”
“I think the question of actually relating emotion to music is totally interesting. I believe that it is really important on some level, but it's also important not to impose your own emotions on some music that has its own emotions.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Peace /n/: A rare state which has only existed when a despot has been fearsome or strong enough to impose it. The image of your head on the end of a stick is a strong incentive toward 'visualizing world peace'.”
“There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.”
“The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it was very upsetting; but I still couldnt bring myself to understand that the policy itself was wrong.”

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