Tony Blair Quotes

Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.

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• There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Women
  • Yourself

• My family are the epicenter of all my decisions.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Family
  • Decisions

• My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Believe
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Best
  • Door

• We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Problem
  • Suffering
  • Same

• I'm in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls', and I wouldn't even have to audition. They'd call my agent directly and say, 'We want twigs to come in.'

  

  FKA twigs
  • Want
  • Years
  • Period

• The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Political
  • Leadership
  • Busy

• 'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Truth
  • Hope

• The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • You
  • Like
  • Google

• I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Me
  • Walking
  • Bored

• You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Know
  • Everyone
  • Mythology

• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Suffering
  • End

• Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Country
  • Interesting

• Vampires are handy characters, as they can do double duty as monster/villains and the classic, misunderstood romantic hero.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Hero
  • Romantic
  • Monster

• The odds of having films made which star women... Everyone still references one movie: 'Bridesmaids!'

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Women
  • Movie
  • Star

• At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Kiss

• Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Sophisticated
  • Musically

• I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Different
  • Personality
  • Relationships

• What a weak, credulous, incredulous, unbelieving, superstitious, bold, frightened, what a ridiculous world ours is, as far as concerns the mind of man. How full of inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities it is. I declare that taking the average of many minds that have recently come before me ... I should prefer the obedience, affections and instinct of a dog before it.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Concerns

• I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • American
  • President
  • Dead

• The blame game is a derogatory term for accountability and we've had failures on the part of government and our leaders at the local level, at the state level and at the presidential level.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • Game
  • Government
  • Presidential

• My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Feeling
  • Heaven
  • Loved

• Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Leader
  • Lord
  • Opposition