Tony Blair Quotes
In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.
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There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
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My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.
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One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.
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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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My life has been devoted to peacemaking.
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Scrutiny has never scared me because I have had detractors all my life.
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When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.
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There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.
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You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.
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For those who want ‘to change life', ‘to reinvent love,’ God is nothing but a hindrance.
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I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.
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At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
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My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life.
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I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.
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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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It's nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.
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I think a lot of what I wanted to do in 2014 was build a repertoire or a portfolio for what I can do with traditional celebrities or with brands or whatever. Maybe 2015 is the year I start reaching out to people I always dreamed to do stuff with.
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.
