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.Paddy Ashdown
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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.
Zadie Smith -
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.
Nat King Cole -
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.
Manmohan Singh -
I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
Wanda Jackson -
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Abu Bakr -
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.
Pat Summitt
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Laura Riding -
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.
Samantha Fox -
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.
F. Sionil Jose -
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.
Viggo Mortensen -
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
Sacha Guitry -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
Becky G -
This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
Gary North -
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.
Kangana Ranaut -
I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
Omari Hardwick -
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
Iain Banks -
With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
Barbara Boxer
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One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.
Auguste Renoir -
A few performances have been left out of the various Woodstock soundtracks and film edits over the years, most notably The Grateful Dead.
Shawn Amos -
These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.
Bob Filner -
I have to put my career first.
Luis Suarez -
I ultimately am probably a pretty anxious person.
Karyn Kusama -
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.
Paddy Ashdown