Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
It is not only in Bosnia-Herzegovina that you find politicians trying to raise hoary old ghosts of the past and gruesome specters to drive people into the ballot box to vote for them.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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Broadway is really my life.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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I take my work seriously.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.
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I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
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At the Emmys, you've got a bunch of people who are used to being on TV on TV. You don't have that at the Oscars. At the Oscars, you have people who are used to having 40 takes.
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It is not only in Bosnia-Herzegovina that you find politicians trying to raise hoary old ghosts of the past and gruesome specters to drive people into the ballot box to vote for them.
