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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Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
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Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than a cuckoo clock. I wish to goodness I knew the man who invented this infernal game. I'd strangle him. But I suppose he's been dead for ages. Still, I could go and jump on his grave.
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To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.
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It takes bravery to care for someone — no matter who he is or what made him, whether he is weak or walking or jumping out of windows. The risk involved is enormous.
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Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.
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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.
