Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.
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With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.
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Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
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The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous.
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I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
