Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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The fight against terror cannot stop as long as terrorism itself is not stopped, but the path of war must change: it must lead directly to terrorists and not be waged on the backs of three million Palestinians.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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A lot of what acting is paying attention.
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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
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By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'
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The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
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The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art.
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Since I was a little girl, I've collected ladybugs. Not real ones - I never had a weird ladybug farm!
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Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.
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I feel uninhibited when I'm writing.
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My dad would always say, 'Girl, you've been given gifts. Use them.' And what he meant by that was, 'Don't just be successful. Don't just use your talents for your own success. But make a difference with them. Do something significant.' And when I put those two things together, it just causes me to not accept the status quo.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
