Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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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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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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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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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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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 don't think there is much American music.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
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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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For PSP, we play the 'SOCOM' game as a team on the plane, and it's pretty cool because you can connect to everyone.
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To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.
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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
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When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.
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'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
