Tony Blair Quotes
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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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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One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.
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When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in.
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If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
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Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.
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The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.
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The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.
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As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.
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A great laptop running the new kinds of user interfaces and apps that people now love on phones and tablets would be a big, exciting event that would help seal the deal. But there hasn't yet been a product that emphatically suggests the era of the traditional PC is fading.
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Life is a journey which is far more enjoyable when your holding hands with the ones you love
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The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
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Girl, you don't know what you're puttin' through. It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you.
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'But of course, you don’t believe in the existence of sin, do you?''I believe in the existence of reckless stupidity,' Rashmika replied.
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I always try to manipulate the eye when I'm dressing myself or someone else. I don't have an hourglass figure, so I'm always trying to give the illusion that I have one; bringing the eye to the waistline by adding a belt or having a heavier print at the bottom or at the top helps define your shape.
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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
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Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.
