Charles Kennedy Quotes
With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
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I can't even tell you the anxiety I get from being around those cameras!
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When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
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When I play my match, I can't think about anything else except what I'm doing on my side of the net.
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You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.
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Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I'm convinced it makes all the difference in the world.
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Like all boys my age, I was an idiot when it came to women.
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A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.
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Letter to Hitler, quoted in Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm:
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Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
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The heart may think it knows better: The senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.
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In Europe, more than in the United States, worldly people, faced with my Indian skin, reflexively laud my 'ancient,' 'beautiful' origins, which is heartier praise than Cleveland usually gets from Europeans.
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Too many people get married and lose themselves. You have to fiercely hold on to who you are, and you need to celebrate that in the other person because that's what made you fall in love in the first place.
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Nelson, about Harry 'I saw him, eventually,' Nelson says, 'as a loser, who never found his niche and floated along on Mom's money, which was money her father made. ... But being a loser wasn't the way my father saw himself. He saw himself as a winner, and until I was twelve or so I saw him the same way.'
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Sometimes you come to a fall and sometimes you come to white water. Your rowing has to adapt to the situation. You can't do the same stroke coming down a small stream as you would coming down Niagara Falls. Even if you're only rowing down a stream, different things happen: maybe the wind changes, maybe the current, and suddenly everything's different. So gently is really important. Don't power yourself or blast through; rock with the way things are.
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With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions.
