Tony Blair Quotes
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'
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I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.
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Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
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[I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the award is a category error, but that's not why. Not in itself. What bothers me is the perceived status of the categories. If pop lyricists were routinely considered for the prize as are authors and poets, I'd still think it mistaken, but I wouldn't much care. But I am quite certain that Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, for example, both at the very least Dylan's equals as writers, have never been in the running and never will be.
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I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.
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Some Muslim children, both male and female, have little choice in who to marry, what to study, what their careers will be, and who they can socialise with. Their lives are constrained under the expectations of family 'honour.'
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I've been very fortunate, but it also never occurred to me that I couldn't do something or that I couldn't ask if I could try something.
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Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
