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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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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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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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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Balthazar has a great New York vibe with the accent of a Parisian brasserie. I usually have the corned beef hash with a fried egg on top and wash it all down with Krug Champagne.
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There is no future for Tunisia without consensus among political parties and members of civil society.
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We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.
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The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.
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The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
