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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I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.
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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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It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.
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Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
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With the kinds of progress we're seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that, you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.
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Capitalism is the true virus that has seeped into the mentality and psychosis of every person in this country. it is up to us during this time to heal and revive any sense of human decency and dignity among one another. to care, to love, to fight for someone you do not know.
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All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.
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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.
