Tony Blair Quotes
There are big questions about the sort of skills you need in modern government today. You put politicians in charge of billions of dollars with absolutely no training and very little support system around them. It's an extraordinary thing.Tony Blair
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
Eamon de Valera -
Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
Vin Diesel -
What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.
Walter Dean Myers -
The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
Aaron Ciechanover -
I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter.
Patrick Kane -
Lying is the rule, not the exception.
Pamela Meyer
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Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.
Pankaj Mishra -
My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
Taylor Swift -
I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.
Naomi Klein -
If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Beauty is momentary in the mind - The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing. So gardens die, their meek breath scenting The cowl of winter, done repenting. So maidens die, to the auroral Celebration of a maiden's choral.
Wallace Stevens -
'Clampdown' (1979)
Joe Strummer The Clash -
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
Paul Wellstone -
It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles.
Luke Wilson -
Coal is absolutely critical to our nation's economic health and global competitiveness.
Jerry Costello -
If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up.
Jesse Ventura
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It's the feeling of being lifted out of my life into another world that is the thrill of writing fiction.
Jennifer Egan -
You adapt to who you're photographing.
David Bailey -
I designed the miniskirt that caused so much havoc in the Sixties - the miniskirt that was such fun but has travelled well to today.
Mary Quant -
Make a commitment today to something bigger and more important than yourself.
Brian Tracy -
There are big questions about the sort of skills you need in modern government today. You put politicians in charge of billions of dollars with absolutely no training and very little support system around them. It's an extraordinary thing.
Tony Blair