Tony Blair Quotes
I have never pretended to be a great House of Commons man, but I pay the House the greatest compliment I can by saying that, from first to last, I never stopped fearing it.
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People take things so seriously.
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I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.
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People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
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It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.
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My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.
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I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life
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Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide… If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men.
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Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
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Choosing a name for a band is always a difficult thing, and I don't think people should read too much into a name because, after all, it's just a handle. It doesn't mean anything.
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If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.
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Italian-Americans are not the Mafia.
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I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.
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Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.
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I want to do good work in the world.
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I don't know - the whole leading man, I don't buy it.
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Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.
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I just kind of kick it at my crib all day because I'm not famous at my house.
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For a young band about to make a record, make sure you get the vocals right.
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I have never pretended to be a great House of Commons man, but I pay the House the greatest compliment I can by saying that, from first to last, I never stopped fearing it.
