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 -
My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
Gary Paulsen -
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 -
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
Cameron Sinclair -
I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.
Karan Singh Grover -
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
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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 -
Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
Barry Pepper -
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 -
Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.
Sam Altman -
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
Cameron Diaz -
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
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
Patrice Leconte -
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 -
After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
Larry Brilliant -
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 -
I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.
Hank Aaron
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Neglecting to bathe the ministry in prayer leaves us just workers, not worshipers. When we unite in prayer, there is incredible power.
K. P. Yohannan -
I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
Maelle Gavet -
Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.
John Shadegg -
War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.
Tom Stoppard -
As a beauty I am not a star, There are others more handsome by far, But my face - I don't mind it For I am behind it. It's the people in front get the jar.
Anthony Euwer -
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Paddy Ashdown