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.
Sadhu Vaswani -
Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr. -
I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
Nancy Farmer -
I'm not a psychiatrist.
Quincy Jones -
I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
Naomi Campbell -
I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.
Cameron Crowe
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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.
Kage Baker -
The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
Harrison Ford -
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.
Randy Harrison -
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.
Malcolm Gladwell -
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.
Malcolm Fraser -
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Mahatma Gandhi
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
Gabriela Sabatini -
Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I don't think there is much American music.
Harrison Birtwistle -
In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
Jack Welch -
Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
Jack Dee -
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.
Abdolkarim Soroush
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Quiet is better than loud.
Dieter Rams -
Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.
Sheryl Crow -
It is not an easy thing to do found the tone right away.
Deborah Kaplan -
Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.
Adam Savage -
What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
Paddy Ashdown