Tony Blair Quotes
As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
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No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
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I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
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There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
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Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.
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If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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[On returning to the country] I went back to where I belonged.
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In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.
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I think I was always a little sponge as a kid, and I was always looking for more information constantly.
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What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.
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As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.
