Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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In my own country, I play light comedies and funny parts.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.
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How we ask the question is extremely important to how we find the answer.
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You must want! You have the right to ask! You must desire.
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There are not 'many sides' in the fight against hatred and bigotry. There is only right and wrong.
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Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
