Tony Blair Quotes
I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your children, however, I recommend it - I almost insist on it - as the first step for anyone unhappy in a relationship.
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I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
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Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
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Cities around the United States do not have land use planning like we have in Oregon, and they are all struggling with issues like affordable housing.
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I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
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I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
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Any can do it - BE RADIANT! Make the decision. I want to be an agent of change to a loving world - so I will be radiant.
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Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.
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I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.
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People buy personalities as much as merchandise, and it is a question if they are not influenced more by the personalities with which they come in contact than they are by the merchandise.
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I have often been called a political opportunist simply because I've had friendships with those from varied spheres of the political scenario. It's risky to even have hi and hello relations now with persons from a particular domain. But I think it has got more to do with that spectrum than it has to do with the people in it.
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Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'
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I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
