The benefits of education and of useful knowledge generally diffused through a community are essential to the preservation of a free government.

O reason reason abstract phantom of the waking state I had already expelled you from my dreams now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

The more I read and watched about the meat industry the more determined I became to keep meat out of my diet. The things I saw in slaughterhouse exposes made me feel sick and I refused to just ignore what I now knew.

Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy uncomfortable unpleasant thing.

When I used to do musical theatre my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.

I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big big change. It confused people: they said 'Things don't look like that!'

The automobile both a cause and an effect of this decentralization is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.