Lara Giddings Quotes

#1. I am just as ordinary as anyone else, and I also have my problems, but I also am responsible for my own health. So I'll be on that exercise bike, I'll be out there walking and try to improve my health and diet as much as I'm expecting of other Tasmanians.

Lara Giddings

#2. Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

Anne Michaels

#3. Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.

Lara Giddings

#4. God, you are my refuge into eternity

Sophie Scholl

#5. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

Lara Giddings

#6. My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.

Lara Giddings

#7. I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.

Lara Giddings

#8. I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.

Mark Messier

#9. The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.

Lara Giddings

#10. Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.

Lara Giddings

#11. Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.

Lara Giddings

#12. At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament ... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.

Lara Giddings

#13. The role of Premier is not one that should be taken lightly, nor is it a personal trophy.

Lara Giddings

#14. When you live in contrary to the demand of life, life doesn't work for you. Life rather works against you.

Sunday Adelaja

#15. We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes.

William Henry Ashley

#16. The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.

Allan Bloom

#17. I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.

Lara Giddings

#18. To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.

Paul Auster

#19. I am hopeful that one day I will meet that right man and will have a very happy life partner.

Lara Giddings

#20. Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

Lara Giddings

#21. Once I started down the path of co-founding Image Comics, and even co-publisher, it just seems a lot more like a career path that isn't that atypical for someone with a college degree. Whereas, someone who draws comic books as a freelancer and lives from job to job is a more unusual story.

Jim Lee

#22. There will always be excuses, arguments, and questions of timing when moving on difficult and controversial issues.

Lara Giddings

#23. President Obama pushed for fairness in the military, listening to commanders as we ended Don't Ask Don't Tell, and on how to allow women to officially serve in more combat jobs. Because America's daughters are just as capable of defending liberty as her sons!

Tammy Duckworth

#24. I'm human. I'm a person. I would love to be in a relationship with a man. I would love to find the right man; I think that's natural - that's what we all want.

Lara Giddings