Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

Paddy Ashdown

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• I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Thought
  • Childhood
  • Fact

• Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Fans
  • Generation
  • Late

• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Nature
  • Hurt
  • Flirtatious

• I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Live
  • Home
  • Night

• Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Eye
  • Spring
  • Obstacles

• Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • True
  • Free
  • Strong

• In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Winning
  • Seed

• You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • You
  • Silence
  • Dawn

• I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Me
  • Win
  • Fight

• I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Preparation
  • Dwell

• To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Children
  • May
  • Age

• After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Practice
  • Back
  • Nap

• Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Engineering

• Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Death
  • Find
  • Maybe

• Using what you have always enhances what's to come no matter if it's an album, song, artwork or whatever.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • Song

• I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

  

  Neil Sheehan
  • War

• Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and murmured, 'No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides', and when someone deplored the necessity of destroying so many brave men, he exclaimed: 'No, shoot them all, I do not wish them to be brave.'

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Men
  • War
  • Wish

• Whether your mother is a novelist like mine or a third-generation military wife, the idea of a son or daughter being in mortal danger is terrifying.

  

  Elliot Ackerman
  • Mother
  • Wife
  • Military

• I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Sin
  • Terrible