Tony Blair Quotes
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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We all want to be the sexy girl.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
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He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.
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When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No, that's not it. There are no other words in which you mean it. This is it.
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There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of decision. Both have the attraction of certainty. The difficult option is to decide where the line should be drawn and this, surely, is the responsiblity of any civilized and democratic country.
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I'm a man of convictions. If you press me about how I feel about an issue, you're going to see my convictions.
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I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
