David Blunkett Quotes
Much extremist activity falls short of directly inciting people to violence or other crimes and so is not caught by laws on incitement. Neither does the Public Order Act, used to protect groups of people from harassment, deal with the problem.
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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I grew up in New York.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.
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It's no surprise that hackers working for North Korea, Iran's mullahs, Vladimir V. Putin in Russia, and the People's Liberation Army of China have all learned that the great advantage of cyberweapons is that they are the opposite of a nuke: hard to detect, easy to deny, and increasingly finely targeted.
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I'm just glad to be singing songs that touch people.
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Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Much extremist activity falls short of directly inciting people to violence or other crimes and so is not caught by laws on incitement. Neither does the Public Order Act, used to protect groups of people from harassment, deal with the problem.
