Tony Blair Quotes
My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility.
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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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.
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You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
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There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
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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.
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Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
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Any government has to be friendly with investors and the business community. They provide jobs, new investments; they keep the country running.
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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.
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Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.
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I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I like to share ideas.
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There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.
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I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.
