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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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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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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In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.
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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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That's all I want in life is to be remembered as a guy that really loved God.
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Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.
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No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends.
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People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.
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I always loved playing basketball. That was never a problem for me. You want to go to the park or the gym, I'll play with you all day, but working out, I didn't love. I hated it.
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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.
