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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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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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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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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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
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There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
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Find an issue that's important to you, and be as curious and close to it as possible.
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I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.
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I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.
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I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.
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I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.
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I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
