"I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite……" — Paddy Ashdown
"I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads."
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32 Quotes by Paddy Ashdown
Paddy Ashdown has 32 quotes on this site.
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At the next election he'll offer the British public an alternative that provides weight and substance and seriousness in a…
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I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
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I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC…
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We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay…
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it…
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The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context…
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The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is…
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The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.
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Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport…
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One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians,…
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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More Chips Quotes
This quote is filed under Chips Quotes,
one of 401 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.
— Kevin Bacon
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Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most…
— Simon Baker
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I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
— Tyra Banks
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Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.
— Jim Bishop
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When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do…
— Barbara Boxer
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I pay a bit more than lip-service to health: I don't eat chips or pre-prepared food, and it might be…
— Jo Brand
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My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new…
— Jo Brand
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Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as…
— Julie Burchill
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Everybody copied Atari products. So we started messing with them and it was fun. We bought enough chips that we…
— Nolan Bushnell
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The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
— John Cleese
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Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have…
— Kevin J. Anderson
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
— Jonathan Swift
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