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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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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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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I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.
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It's not even so much about publicity, it's more just letting people know that things are available, because books aren't a flash in the pan thing. It's more like: "It took 20 years for this book to be done and now it'll be on a shelf for 20 years until the right person finds it."
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In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.
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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.
