Tony Blair Quotes

Immigration was probably the driving thing behind Brexit.

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• Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • People
  • Fortune
  • Quit

• I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like... 'Really, are you badly behaved with other people?' I was like, 'No, not at all.' But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.

  

  Kajol
  • People
  • She
  • Mother

• Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• As an actor, I'm in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn't fit in with family life, there's more flexibility.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • House
  • Small
  • Air

• There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Trying
  • You
  • Aesthetic

• 9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are kind of filtered through that lens.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • American
  • History

• I felt that writing about peoples' lives was a heck of a responsibility, and I wanted to know them in a deep way.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Writing
  • Responsibility
  • Deep

• I loved 'Matilda.' The kids are so brilliant and uninhibited. They were inspiring. Seeing them onstage, just going wild, reminded me of when I was that age. I was excited for them and completely taken by their innocence and hard work.

  

  Matthew James Thomas
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Age

• When a buyer leaves a negative review, it is a great opportunity to connect and find out why they did and how to make your business better.

  

  Chris Gronkowski
  • Great
  • Why
  • Business

• We've all been influenced by American naturalism, and to ignore that entirely would be impossible for me as someone who works primarily in film.

  

  Ben Foster
  • American
  • Ignore

• Republicans have always talked about having a big tent, but it doesn't do any good if the tent doesn't have any chairs in it. Bringing Latinos to the forefront, bringing women in is absolutely critical.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Good
  • Women

• I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Character
  • Kids
  • House

• Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.

  

  Connie Stevens
  • Pet

• I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Girl

• I don't really eat a lot of fast food, ever, but if I had to eat at one fast food restaurant, it'd be In-N-Out.

  

  David Henrie
  • Food

• I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Career

• We men are wretched things.

  

  Homer
  • Men
  • Wretched

• I went to see my mother the other day, and she told me this story that I'd completely forgotten about how, when we were driving together, she would pull the car over, and by the time she had gotten out of the car, and gone around the car to let me out of the car, I would have already gotten out of the car and pretended to have died.

  

  James Veitch
  • Time
  • She
  • Together

• I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.

  

  Clifford Irving

• It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost.

  

  Alison Hawthorne Deming
  • Voice
  • Animals
  • Writers

• When I talk to younger actors, and young people in general, who are holding off having children because they think they cannot fit them into their busy lives, I now know, and am able to say to them, 'You've just got to get on with it; there is never going to be a right time.'

  

  Mark Strong
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• Immigration was probably the driving thing behind Brexit.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Driving
  • Immigration
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