Tony Blair Quotes

If people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, 'I understand why it is being done.'

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• My father was a lawyer.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Father
  • Lawyer

• We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Know
  • Deep
  • Scars

• Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been working on with Coca-Cola, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney to launch content when an image is recognised.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • World
  • America
  • Vision

• Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • May
  • Foresight
  • Undoubtedly

• As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Me
  • Start

• Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • History
  • Name
  • Evidence

• Negative publicity makes people forget your best times.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • People
  • Best
  • Negative

• He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Impossible
  • Decisions

• In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Time
  • School
  • Win

• Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Money
  • Strong

• When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Horror
  • Making
  • Sounds

• No one wants to see curvy women.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Women
  • See
  • Curvy

• I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Pressure

• To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Change

• I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Rock
  • Couple

• I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Truth
  • Right
  • Wrong

• Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Help
  • Never
  • Yourself

• If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Mathematics

• Football is so popular, people know they can sell their story in a newspaper form or a rating on TV, so they use football because what they are more about is the business of, you know, selling newspapers or seeing commercial time on TV.

  

  Jim Irsay
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.

  

  Christopher Cross
  • People
  • Great

• Frankly, I had enjoyed the war… and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun?

  

  Adrian Carton de Wiart
  • People
  • War
  • Fun

• As a gun owner and sportsman, I am proud to join NRA members from across the country to make the voice of liberty heard.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Country
  • Proud
  • Gun

• Age is just a number. Who cares how old the girl is that I date?

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Age
  • Girl
  • Care

• If people in the end think that you can't do something in a way which is acceptable then it won't fly. The only way you get anything like this done is if people think, 'I understand why it is being done.'

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Done
  • Way