Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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The seething racial resentment in the Third World against the West — decades after independence and trillions in foreign aid — should cause second thoughts about opening our borders to mass immigration from that world. Not everyone coming here brings in his heart the passionate attachment to America we attribute to the peoples of Ellis Island.
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I'm a backseat producer. I know what I don't like, what I do like, and I'm very vocal about that. I work with people that I have a good working relationship with and are understanding that I have a certain vision, but don't necessarily know how to vocalize that all the time.
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Listen to me, even when you lose, it's OK to lose, but you can never get comfortable with it. You can never be satisfied with losing. When you lose, it's got to hurt.
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A good society is a society which believes that it is not good enough; that it is the task of the collectivity to insure individuals against individually suffered misfortune; and that the quality of society is measured by the quality of life of its weakest, just like the carrying power of a bridge is measured by its weakest pillar.
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The times when black women have been successful in confronting and overcoming the structural and institutional sexism and racism that persists in our society have been when we are thoughtful and strategic about speaking up. It's when we've done what it takes to introduce and implement our ideas and our plans to make things better.
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The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
