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 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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I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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This is all yours, forever. It's all yours, forever!
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If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.
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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.
