David Blunkett Quotes
That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.
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I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
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I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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I don't have an off-duty wardrobe.
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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I feel Victoria may have a Secret, but you don't have to know it!
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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I'm actual thankful for the amount of responsibility that has been handed to me. I feel very honored.
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'The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.
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Without an industrial economy, the modern army, as in America, could not exist; it is an army of machines. Professional economists usually consider military institutions as parasitic upon the means of production. Now, however, such institutions have come to shape much of the economic life of the United States.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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'It sounds like I'm always being facetious. That's why I never get voice over work. 'You sound like you hate the product.' '
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A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.
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That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.
