Tony Blair Quotes

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here.

Tony Blair

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• The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Hollywood
  • Promoting
  • Fashionista

• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Free
  • Simplicity

• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige

• I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • People
  • Up
  • Single

• Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Creative

• I'm really tired of virtue.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Tired
  • Virtue
  • Really

• Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Good
  • Education
  • Leader

• I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
  • Know
  • Brother
  • Lie

• How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • You
  • Possible

• There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Age

• Every generation finds the drug it needs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Drug

• You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Age

• If you really love stuffing, wait until the turkey comes out of the oven, add some of the pan drippings to the stuffing, and bake it in a dish. That's called dressing, and that's not evil - stuffing is, though.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Evil

• We're fortunate in my family because we really have three families: my brother, David, and me; the two boys, Cooper and Marston, from my dad's second marriage; and my dad's wife, Crystal.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Wife

• In 1982, when I was almost 26 years old, I decided I wanted to write fiction. I'd majored in journalism in college, and I'd always assumed I would write nonfiction.

  

  Cynthia Kadohata
  • College

• The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer
  • Great
  • Music
  • Writing

• I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.

  

  Dolph Lundgren

• I know what it's like to feel snobby; I know what it's like to feel anxiety; I know what it's like to feel like busted because you're crazy.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Crazy
  • Anxiety

• Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

  

  Douglas Wilson
  • Country
  • Design

• I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.

  

  Helen Keller
  • World
  • Action
  • Mean

• Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From it, we get the sort of intellectual tolerance that allows me to propound something that may be completely alien to you.

  

  John Rhys-Davies
  • Real
  • May
  • Joy

• If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Care
  • Unique
  • Understand

• Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain, Britain. Conform to it; or don't come here.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Tolerance
  • Britain
  • Conform