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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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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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'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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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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Legal and economic equality are absolutely necessary remedies for the Fall, and protection against cruelty.
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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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When employees join executives in truly owning the responsibility for business success, an exciting new sense of teamwork takes hold.
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Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from real people like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Beaver's dad Ward Cleaver and Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable, to cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Seth MacFarlane's caricatures in 'American Dad!' and 'Family Guy.'
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Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you're having or how many things you accomplish, life through the lens of history is incredibly short.
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Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.
