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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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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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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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
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Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.
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I like my small camper. I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving.
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Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
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I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.
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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.
