Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
We are not there yet, but I'd be disappointed if in two years' time there was not some movement towards truth as a precursor to reconciliation.

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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?
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The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
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My favorite jewelry, it's just what I'm feeling at the time.
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I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.
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We are not there yet, but I'd be disappointed if in two years' time there was not some movement towards truth as a precursor to reconciliation.