Tony Blair Quotes

I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us going out there beating our chest about our faith. Politics and religion - it is not that they do not have a lot in common, but if [religion] ends up being used in the political process, I think that is a bit unhealthy.

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• I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Rock
  • Like
  • More

• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Dad

• I don't like possessions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Like
  • Possessions

• I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Best

• All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Words
  • Beginning

• I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Baby
  • Look
  • Chocolate

• When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • School
  • Book
  • Mother

• What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Great
  • Success
  • Perfect

• I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • Good
  • Women
  • Faith

• It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • You
  • Win
  • Matter

• To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Way
  • Afghanistan
  • Camel

• We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Words

• Too often, while well-intentioned, our poverty programs fail the poor. They fail them by keeping them in cycles of dependency.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Poverty
  • Poor
  • Often

• My vintage Levi's are my favorite on the show, 'cause they really fit.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Favorite
  • Fit
  • Vintage

• I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Government

• Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Water
  • Skin
  • Cells

• When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • Gay
  • Lesbian

• Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Political
  • Religious

• We're not the best, but we happen to be what evolution came up with.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Up

• Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Career
  • Confidence
  • Humble

• I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us going out there beating our chest about our faith. Politics and religion - it is not that they do not have a lot in common, but if [religion] ends up being used in the political process, I think that is a bit unhealthy.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Political
  • Style
  • Process