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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 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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As a child growing up in refugee camps, life taught me that many things were impossible. My older sister, Claire, taught me otherwise when her strength and resilience made the impossible possible in the way she worked, behaved, and took control of our lives.
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For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life.
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Only the insecure strive for security.
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Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.
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The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
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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.
