#lia

Well, there have been periods in the past when prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand were at each others' throats publicly and frequently. That's not productive at all. ↗

— Helen Clark

#been #each #frequently #in the past #ministers

Well, we don't think for a moment that either the U.S. or Australia are out to damage the New Zealand economy, but if there were a sustained period in which they had a free-trade agreement and New Zealand didn't have that same arrangement with the States, that could be both trade- and investment-distorting. ↗

— Helen Clark

#arrangement #australia #both #could #damage

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#companions #corrupted #liable

I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#come #cool #hank #hank williams #i

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case. ↗

— Albert Claude

#appreciation #case #death #experienced #familiarity

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#brilliance #bull #dazzle #them #you

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#i #i tried #slippery #tell #these

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#bestial #black #body #brilliant #champions

You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there. ↗

— Ed Helms

#excitement #familiar #foreign #ground #just

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron? ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#birds #formed #more #peculiarly #than