Tony Blair Quotes
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?
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I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.
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I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?
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I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.
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I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.
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We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
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And when I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death.And neither one particularly appeals to me.
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I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
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We are in a good position and should not squander the opportunity to o the right thing.
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The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters' lives.
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The Farm Bill is one of the only bills that provides substantial deficit reduction that passed the Senate this year. It only makes sense that this deficit reduction bill would be included in a larger deficit reduction agreement.
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I'm not against Flash, and I love the work that people such as Joshua Davis do.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.
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The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
