Tony Blair Quotes
Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism.
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
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Unfortunately, violent events and hate-filled rhetoric around the world provide ample opportunity for promoting religious hostility.
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I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.
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Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
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It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.
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John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil's advocate. Whatever you say, he'll challenge you on.
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Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'
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When it comes to casual clothing, my enthusiasm for clothes starts to waver.
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Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give it up.
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My personal style is kind of tomboy-boho chic! Sort of funky but simple.
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The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or anything, but his spark. What makes it so great for me is that I really don't know. There's a mystery behind Brian, even to me.
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If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
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The fate of farm animals is not an ethical side issue. It concerns the majority of Earth's large creatures: tens of billions of sentient beings, each with a complex world of sensations and emotions, but who live and die as cogs in an industrial production line.
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
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My first policy move would be to try to get a conversation going in the US about what people stand for and what we really want. Do we want to keep adding people to the world and to our country until we move to a battery-chicken kind of existence and then collapse? Or do we want to think hard about what really is valuable to us, and figure out how many people we can supply that to sustainably?
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Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism.
