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

• It's things like Wikipedia that help us to advance as a society and help us to accelerate our evolution. If you're a researcher and you need some answer to something, and in today's world you can find it this quickly, it allows you to develop whatever you are doing much faster.

  

  Kim Dotcom
  • World
  • Help
  • Today

• 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

• It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Mean

• Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Knows
  • Started
  • Witchcraft

• Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through 'a confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building,' not by abridging First Amendment rights.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Country
  • Law
  • Peace

• I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.

  

  Geoff Hoon
  • People
  • Future
  • Freedom

• I know there are some voices calling for a punitive deal that punishes Britain. That would be an act of calamitous self-harm for the countries of Europe, and it would not be the act of a friend.

  

  Theresa May
  • Friend
  • Voices
  • Britain

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

  

  Tony Blair
  • Tolerance
  • Britain
  • Conform