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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One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.
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History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
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Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
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I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
