Tony Blair Quotes

The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.

Tony Blair

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• On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.

  

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• I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

  

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• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

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• Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• I find celebrity really scary.

  

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• I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

  

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• Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.

  

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• When I was singing, everybody liked me.

  

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• I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.

  

  Nancy Werlin
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• I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.

  

  Val McDermid
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• I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• The fun of sitting around Pangong Lake with 40 guys around a fireplace, having a glass of wine... staying in one camp together... that's an experience. Waking up at 5 in the morning, watching the sun come up. You don't do these things in Bombay.

  

  Gautam Singhania
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• Mental silence is the perfect response to a challenge.

  

  Vernon Howard
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• Il y a toujours quelque chose d’absent qui me tourmente.

  

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• The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

  

  Edward Gibbon
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• Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!

  

  Emily Mortimer
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• I've seen composers work on 30 films at one go. So, eight or even 10 albums in a year is no big deal.

  

  Pritam Chakraborty
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• Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.

  

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• You remember had this gigantic clock in the arena showing the size of the national debt. And Paul told America, if you elect Republicans, we can fix that. But, if Paul Ryan was being honest, he would've pointed to the debt clock and said, we built that.

  

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• We try to push such crazy ideals onto young women: the Hollywood version of what they should look like, what they should do, and the kind of Prince Charming they should be looking for. We should just be proud of who we are, because we can't be anybody else. So what's the point of trying?

  

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• «I want to convey to the Spaniards a message of hope. ETA is a great nation; Spain, sorry, it's a great nation.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
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• I'm so socially awkward. I really had to put myself out there and meet new people.

  

  Bella Hadid
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• I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

  

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  • People
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• The big issue of our time is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Different
  • Trying