Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
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I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.
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The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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It's so exciting to be able to talk about Office 365. I can only describe what Office 365 is in sort of two words. You could say technically it's three words. But Office 365, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, that's all it is.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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No one person is an island.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
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I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
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Politics is compromise.
