Tony Blair Quotes

I'm not prepared to have someone tell me there is only one view of what Europe is. Europe isn't owned by any of them, Europe is owned by all of us.

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• You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Talent
  • Possess
  • Anxious

• The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread, Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Eyes
  • Moon
  • Fierce

• There’s only one thing that we have to do in life, and that is to die.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • Life
  • Die

• We only see things coming and going, we need food, we need water.

  

  Amanullah Khan
  • Food
  • Water
  • Things

• Nobody's dumb in this relationship [with his wife] or in the relationships of any of the other guys in the band. But it's also not the cliché that those on the outside envision.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Guy
  • Relationship
  • Wife

• I never want to go back and remix old records, either. If a record sounds shitty, that's just the sound it has. I just take it as part of the music. Some of my favorite bands - their old records sound terrible. But that's just part of the sound. If they were perfect, I'd probably hate them. Same thing with movies.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Perfect

• I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Art
  • Approach
  • Genre

• In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • America

• Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Beautiful
  • Self
  • Authentic Self

• The most important thing is that, when you work with somebody, you build a rapport with that person. They have a certain trust in you. You don't have to explain that much. It's very hard when you photograph someone who's a fresh face and then you don't work with them again for six months. All these people I work with over and over again have qualities that I love. There's something very free about them or there are some slight imperfections about them. I think the more you work with someone, the pictures get better and better.

  

  Craig McDean
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.

  

  Iain Pears
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Light

• The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Giving
  • Responsibility
  • Wisdom

• But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can’t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • High
  • Society
  • Alone

• The live concerts are everything and I’m very grateful that most of my career, I’m a live artist, I’ve been doing this. So I’ve traveled quite a lot, played in - I never stopped playing.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Live
  • Career

• what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I'm the oldest, I have the most experience, and I'm the best looking [betwin brothers]. I've been told that on numerous occasions.

  

  P. K. Subban
  • Experience
  • Brother
  • Occasions

• That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

  

  Lord Byron
  • People
  • Burst
  • Spoonfuls

• When you tell women that they are, and you train them to actually believe that their value is involved with, the commodification of their sexuality, then you open the floodgates to this kind of absurd sort of reductive view of a human.

  

  Kamala Lopez
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Kind

• The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Learning

• At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • World
  • Heart
  • Faith

• Inspector Milne's suspicious prying appeared to have awakened her inner Bolshevik, and so I discovered my own lady mother is not above quietly circumventing the law.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Mother
  • Law
  • Discovered

• I'm not prepared to have someone tell me there is only one view of what Europe is. Europe isn't owned by any of them, Europe is owned by all of us.

  

  Tony Blair
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