Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.Paddy Ashdown
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I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
Danica McKellar -
If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
Kajol -
So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
Walter Salles -
I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
Maika Monroe -
I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
O. J. Simpson -
I'm a good Catholic boy.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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I love shopping, but I can't go out. I love going to restaurants and eating out with friends.
Ram Charan -
Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
Iris Apfel -
I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
Gayle Forman -
A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
Hale Irwin -
One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
Camila Alves
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My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
Karen Duffy -
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
H. P. Lovecraft -
One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
Madeleine Albright -
It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
Warren Buffett -
It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
Ingrid Newkirk
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The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
Barbara Mandrell -
I'm happy. I learned. I learned from my mistakes. But when you learn, you see all the results; you look more mature, and you put all the pieces together.
Pablo Sandoval -
An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
Pankaj Mishra -
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
A. J. Liebling -
Take my hand, come with me. I see the lights so brightly. And we fall as if we never really mattered.
Pete Yorn -
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
Paddy Ashdown