Tony Blair Quotes

Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

Tony Blair

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• One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Good
  • Game
  • Change

• Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Diversity
  • Thousand

• When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Made
  • Artists
  • Back

• Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Want
  • Die
  • Sun

• Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Problem
  • Start
  • Drinking

• Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • You
  • Cool
  • Vulnerability

• I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Honest
  • Been

• The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Scene

• If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • World
  • Today
  • Effort

• In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Home
  • Knowledge
  • City

• I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Stage
  • Performer

• In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Talk

• You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Power
  • Woman
  • Exercise

• Legitimate small businesses are put at a huge competitive disadvantage when bad actors lie about their small business status and don't play by the rules.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Small

• This dark diction has become America's addiction.

  

  Kanye West
  • America
  • Dark
  • Addiction

• Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn't like manufacturing, logistics, home appliances or the auto sector, which deal with consumers.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Real
  • Home
  • Government

• I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something, and I tend to feel like it's leading me, and I'll follow the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Feel

• It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Know
  • Me
  • Kind

• The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

  

  Alfred Bester
  • Society
  • Priority

• A book worth reading is worth buying.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Book
  • Reading

• At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Time
  • Stop

• Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Envy
  • Dare

• Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

  

  Tony Blair
  • War
  • Sometimes
  • Chance