A Quote by Cate Blanchett
His [Gough Whitlam's] effect on the geo-cultural-political map of Australia is so vast that wherever you stick the pin in you get a wealth of Gough's legacy.
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Notoriously, in 1975, Murdoch abused his position as a newspaper owner to support a plot that ousted the democratically elected prime minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, who had dared to wander away from the mogul's path.
I used to do impersonations: Harry Butler in the wild, or I'd do Gough Whitlam.
Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.
Once again it was Gough who stood firm for Scotland in the air
I have many favorite artists...Van Gough as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!
The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.
Gough, of course, would have loved to speak today but the rules of the game have disqualified him.
One of my heroes growing up was Darren Gough, he always made things happen and I wanted to be like him.
China and Germany are important geo-economic powers that have been able to bolster their geo-political and even military power, thanks to the opportunity provided by their geo-economic rise.
In the words of Louis Brandeis, the Supreme Court justice, we have a choice between a democracy or vast concentrations of wealth. We have vast concentrations of wealth which has bought its way into our democracy with its political leaders who exemplify the merger of that economic and political elite.
We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.
If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
Globalisation is under stress due to new and emerging geo-political and geo-economic faultlines.
We know that if you have $20 million, it's better to buy a van Gough print than it is buy an executive jet, from the point of view of the environment. But when you start getting down, it's like the recycling question: What are things we can really afford to do, and how much pleasure do we get out of them? We haven't even started to have that discussion, and it's getting awfully late.
Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.
It’s just that I’m the kind of person,' Rebecca continued, 'that thinks if you took a map of the whole world and put a pin in it for every person, there wouldn’t be a pin for me.
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