Tony Blair Quotes
Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
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You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.
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America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.
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I've always looked old for my age.
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I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.
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Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.
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Learning who you are is what you're here to do.
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I am the people - the mob - the crowd - the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?
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So along with that is spending a lot of time with the ball. For me it was, I loved to juggle the ball in my front yard, and I always challenged myself - how many juggles can I get today? I think for players to get better, it's just about spending the time.
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It's just such a pleasure to bring a talent you respect to the world.
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Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.
