Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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'Why ‘threep’? Why ‘clank’? Slang happens.'
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Ireland was an idyllic place for us as children. We had all these cousins and all this green countryside. Given what I've written about rural Ireland, my memories of it are all blue skies and endless play.
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History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.
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History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.
