Tony Blair Quotes
My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
-
I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
-
I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
-
I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
-
Actor's life is very long.
-
Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
-
I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
-
For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
-
I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
-
In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
-
GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
-
You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
-
I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.
-
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
-
I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and Entering' - Anthony Minghella gave me my start and I miss him dearly. Then I made the trip out to L.A., during one of their pilot seasons, which was when they were developing 'Gossip Girl,' and I auditioned, and things came together.
-
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
-
Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs, new investments; they keep the country running.
-
Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
-
Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
-
There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law). The best solution is to use both together: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.
-
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
-
That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.
-
I'm doing stuff on Kaballah and Scientology and a little bit more racial stuff, for good measure.
-
My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.
