Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.
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I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.
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Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in the way of education about what our Constitution means and why it was written. Thus, we've fallen easy prey to charlatens, quacks, and hustlers.
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If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.
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Somebody wanted me to autograph her breast and I kindly refused. She was in college. I thought maybe I shouldn't do that.
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In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.
