Tony Blair Quotes
The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
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Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
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'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
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Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.
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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
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I was looking at my Instagram, and someone said to me, 'Who manages your Instagram?' I would never let anyone manage my Instagram! I enjoy it.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.
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The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.
