I'd sell my grandmother for a bit of definition.


Paddy Ashdown

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Paddy Eagan, stay away from falling signs for a bit and you'll be as right as rain come the weekend.
ELIZABETH C. BUNCE
Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
PADDY ASHDOWN
We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a...
PADDY ASHDOWN
I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from th...
PADDY ASHDOWN
What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
PADDY ASHDOWN
People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
PADDY ASHDOWN
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
PADDY ASHDOWN
I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
PADDY ASHDOWN
I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
PADDY ASHDOWN
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
PADDY ASHDOWN
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
PADDY ASHDOWN
We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make...
PADDY ASHDOWN
I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People ar...
PADDY ASHDOWN
It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
PADDY ASHDOWN
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
PADDY ASHDOWN
It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
PADDY ASHDOWN
Politics is compromise.
PADDY ASHDOWN
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could en...
PADDY ASHDOWN
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such m...
PADDY ASHDOWN
It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we ha...
PADDY ASHDOWN
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare...
PADDY ASHDOWN
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil soci...
PADDY ASHDOWN
I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
PADDY ASHDOWN
Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient a...
PADDY ASHDOWN
The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: ...
PADDY ASHDOWN
It is my worst experience, my worst trip to the Balkans,
PADDY ASHDOWN
There is real money to be made.
PADDY ASHDOWN
I believe that there will be a very substantial, perhaps even a two-thirds majority, for constitutio...
PADDY ASHDOWN
A very small bunch of corrupt politicians believe that allowing Radovan Karadzic to stay at liberty ...
PADDY ASHDOWN
The present Europe is unfinished business unless the Balkans are a part of it,
PADDY ASHDOWN
Bosnia and Herzegovina has done what many said was impossible even a year ago, let alone at the star...
PADDY ASHDOWN
Bosnia and Herzegovina has done what many said was impossible even a year ago, let alone at the star...
PADDY ASHDOWN
callous and irresponsible attempt to misguide voters and exploit the trauma of those who survived or...
PADDY ASHDOWN
I don't know a country in the entire world that has made faster progress from war, let alone such a ...
PADDY ASHDOWN
It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS...
To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS...
Oh sod me, Sir, not another bloody Paddy. Even a Brummie is better than another Paddy.
JIM MCGRATH
My grandmother was musically gifted, and Annie recognized that gift. My grandmother did the same for...
ANNIE WOLAVER
My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree o...
BRIAN ACTON
(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON
Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived wit...
JOHN HUME
I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember m...
JAMES E. FAUST
Jamie Ashdown has been great for me - and having someone so experienced around can only bring him on...
HARRY REDKNAPP
I learned there were lots of realities in the world.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
In hindsight, yesterday's sell-off was a bit overdone.
MASAYOSHI OKAMOTO
Fair market value, by definition, is the price at which a willing seller will sell and a willing buy...
BOB DEAN
My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on th...
JUAN FELIPE HERRERA
Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who rai...
CARINE ROITFELD
Look out, Paddy Power, someone's just parked a tank on your lawn.
DAVID HARDING
Money is not my definition of success; inspiring people is the definition of success.
KANYE WEST
For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.
KARA SWISHER
I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
DANA GOODYEAR
My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.
CAROL BURNETT
My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.
KOICHI TANAKA
My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
PETER GAY
Of course, I will continue to share my favorite Southern recipes, just like my mama, grandmother and...
PAULA DEEN
I'm just the product of my grandmother telling me for years she would see my name on the spines of b...
HANNAH BRENCHER
My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regu...
CHESTY PULLER
My definition of success is control.
KENNETH BRANAGH
Poor Paddy of all Christian men I thinkOn basest food pours down the vilest drink.
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM
I credit my grandmother for teaching me to love and respect food. She taught me how to waste nothing...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON
On Britney Spears: It's a bit sad to wear a bikini to sell records.
SAMANTHA MUMBA
I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.
STEVEN ADLER
I'm like a surrogate grandmother to him. He's like one of my grandchildren.
JUDY CRIST
My grandmother was about 4'8
DEBBIE REYNOLDS
When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmoth...
KAREN BENDER
We had a pretty pronounced sell-off, and now some people are doing a little bit of bargain hunting.
CHARLES LEMONIDES
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people an...
COTE DE PABLO
I'd sell my soul for a good cause.
HUGH JACKMAN
I'm very close with him. His grandmother is like my grandmother. They took me in. It's always compet...
EARL WATSON
I shall never have a bath again," I said.
"Just dont have one too often," my grandmother said....
ROALD DAHL
I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC s...
DEBORAH COPAKEN KOGAN
Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncra...
GUY KAWASAKI
My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other ...
DAVID DINKINS
Showing your ID is a far cry from being searched for explosives.
CHARLES SLEPIAN
A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card.
EDGAR A. SHOAFF
The most beautiful thing that could happen to you is also the most dangerous. You'll be defenseless....
PHILLIP AQUINO
Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmoth...
CHARLES PALLISER
My Swedish grandmother was the daughter of a dairy farmer who lived near Hedemora. My Swedish grandf...
GEORGE AKERLOF
Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.
AMOS OZ
My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.
LARRY HAGMAN
murder takes presedence over watching my boyfriend strip" -ID, Anita to Nathaniel
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
I grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas... raised by my grandmother. We were very poor and had no indoor plu...
ALANA STEWART
My childhood memories of my grandparents are of a wonderful, complementary couple. While my grandfat...
KRISTINA MCMORRIS
My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time.
CURTIS JACKSON
Each of my symphonies has a fresh character with a specific definition of their own.
LLOYD GEORGE
My grandmother, Nina Eaton, founded United Cerebral Palsy. At the time that my father was born with ...
MEREDITH EATON
My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
CAROL BURNETT
The Only Way Out Is To DIE!!!!
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE
Those farmers were working in their paddy fields when they were taken and shot.
BRIGADIER SAMARASINGHE
Those farmers were working in their paddy fields when they were taken and shot.
BRIGADIER PRASAD SAMARASINGHE
My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at.
ROBERT DE NIRO
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
GERRY SPENCE
My definition of Fun Game is when everyone wins.
KIRTIDA GAUTAM
No one cares what my definition of "is" is
NANCY CARTWRIGHT
My definition of a free society is where it's safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR.
pain is a definition of how people see me quite and alone wishing for things to change from my past ...
TERESA MORENO
One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.
GEORGE W. BUSH
The year-on-year was (up) 2.2 percent. That is a change and that is worrisome for the Fed. You would...
KURT KARL

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People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
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I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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Things just kind of built from there. I always liked watching them in football.
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He was always kind of the nice guy in the good cop-bad cop thing. But it's not like he tells us to d...
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors ...
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I would like at this moment to announce that I will be retiring from this program in two weeks' time...
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His vital signs were taken, an electrocardiogram... which revealed occasional ventricular premature ...
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We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever...
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The title has still got to be our aim but we need consistency.
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We have sent a list of eligible schools that have not yet applied to our circuit managers, who will ...
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I'm happy with our performance. It was a tight game and it was just a little bit of home advantage t...
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The race has got a lot of depth. There's a whole lot of contenders.
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If you want to know what a man wants you to think of him, look at his tie. If you want to know what ...
PADDY ASHDOWN'S MOTHER.