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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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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When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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Paintin they own pictures then they crop me in But I will remain where the top begins
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Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.
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We contain our past. Unknown it might be, but it persists alive and urging.
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With quantum computers you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how much energy exists, and use that to rule out lots of things about the universe's history. Anything that takes more bit flips couldn't have happened.
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I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.
