Tony Blair Quotes
I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.
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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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I am a businessman.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.
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I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
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I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.
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When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
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My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.
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It's not palm trees and neon signs in Florida; it's strip malls, highways, hot sun beating down on you.
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We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.
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I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.
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Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.
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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
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I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.
