Tony Blair Quotes
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With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.
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the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.
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God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.
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As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.
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A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.
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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.
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In magic, man has to rely on himself. So, in religion, of course, you're looking for outside support but that's the appeal of magic.
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You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.
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No one's ready for a thing, until they believe that they can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish.
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Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.
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Broadway is amazing because you're performing for such an intimate group of people. You're living in the moment and whatever happens happens, and you go on. You can't say cut and redo it, you have to be on the whole time.
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Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.
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You can run. You can keep running to the ends of the earth. But I won’t be far behind you.
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The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
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If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.
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Stirring is OK. It just depends what happens in the end.
