Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
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I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.
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Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
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'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.
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I would love to have played Gollum.
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Who'd have thought the Frisbee would have caught on?
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
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Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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I would have loved to have been a cricketer.
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I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.
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But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
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I would be the worst biologist in the world!
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There's a lot of demand to hear the new Kanye West album before it hits the streets. There's much less demand to read the new Phillip Roth novel.
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An EMP explosion would wipe out our grid, wipe out our cellular system.
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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
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I hear my Twitter followers say, you know, 'Bob Rae, you're an asshole'...I'm working my way and trying to represent the people and speaking in Question Period and here we have vox populi, the thoughtful man on the street, 'you are an asshole!'. Thank you very much. I read it on my Twitter and I get up and ask a question.
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I would often get called in to play a very loud, obnoxious - which, truth be told, I can be loud and obnoxious. My issue was when it was like a ghetto girl; I didn't think I was good at it; I didn't feel authentic. And so I had insecurities about going in on it.
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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
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If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope, the hope that you will help them solve a problem or achieve a goal.
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I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
