Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.Paddy Ashdown
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
Major Taylor -
My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
Naveen Jain -
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski -
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Queen Elizabeth II -
If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
Tamron Hall -
In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
Jack Adams
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
Sally Hawkins -
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.
Saku Koivu -
I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
Dakota Fanning -
One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
Francesco Guicciardini -
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Madame de Stael
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
Kate Clinton -
I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
Adam Jones -
Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
Karen O -
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
A. R. Ammons -
I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
Laura Dern
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
Dan Brown -
Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.
Mark Vonnegut -
You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I would try once out of every six months, but I was always a great writer!
Bubba Sparxxx -
The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.
Tariq Ramadan -
It's not like vampires are inherently bad. It's just people need to make better vampire movies.
Drew Goddard -
Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.
Paddy Ashdown