David Blunkett Quotes
Nothing is more important for young people than enhancing their life chances, liberating their potential and encouraging their contribution to a globally competitive and modern economy.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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Time hygiene is about finding more time for ourselves: to think, to do what we like.
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Tara: Sweetie, you wouldn't blow off a class if your head was on fire.
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One of the things I noticed while I lived in New York City was how different the kids and teens were that grew up there versus, you know, my suburban upbringing. They have this innate resilience and toughness to them, and they're incredibly self-sufficient, usually from a pretty young age.
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I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
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Nothing is more important for young people than enhancing their life chances, liberating their potential and encouraging their contribution to a globally competitive and modern economy.
