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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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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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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I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.
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Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.
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It's a situation where it's tough for Tom and tough for us, ... We think the world of him.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I don't have a trainer. I have what I call 'the poor man's workout and the rich man's diet.' I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if it's 3 in the morning.
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The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith.
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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.
