Tony Blair Quotes

All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland

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• And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Myself

• I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • World
  • Great
  • Home

• When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Attention
  • Say
  • Everyone

• As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Crime
  • Bed

• Excellence always sells.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Always
  • Excellence
  • Sells

• The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • You
  • Down
  • Step

• A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Choice
  • Enemies

• Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Effort

• I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Time
  • Artist
  • Step

• I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Up
  • Job
  • New York

• A lot of concerts leave you wanting for something good to eat or drink while you're there.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Good
  • You
  • Drink

• Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Women
  • Walking
  • India

• My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Parents
  • Choice
  • Gang

• I … started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Singing

• Ignorance in certain places frightens me. The political situation of the world frightens me. Political anger around the globe frightens me. The lack of love in the world frightens me. Violence frightens me.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • World
  • Political
  • Violence

• We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Challenge

• My heart is warm with friends I make,  And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,  No matter where it's going.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Heart
  • Friends

• You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.

  

  Alan Lomax
  • Up
  • Dying

• We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Government
  • Financial

• In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.

  

  Boris Spassky
  • Time
  • Country
  • Help

• We have time, there's no big rush.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Time
  • Rush

• I laugh at it today, now that I have had all the good of it. Let the bridge blow up, provided I have got my troops across... Nonetheless, that book was a terrible risk. A transparent leaf separates it from madness.

  

  James Joyce
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland

  

  Tony Blair
  • Risk
  • Decent
  • Lasting