Tony Snow Quotes
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.
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I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.
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Keep me alive. Keep me alive long enough for me to conquer the animal within myself. Long enough for me to learn to partner myself with a woman who is better and stronger than me. Long enough for me to reconcile myself with my brothers. Long enough to be as good a man as my father, and as good as my mother, too.
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We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves - outside of Germany.
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As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?
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I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein - it's down to him that I cook fish so much - and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.
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You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.
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I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them.
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To these economic refugees, maybe we should tell them, 'We'll call you when we need you.'
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We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.
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We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.
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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
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Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.
