David Blunkett Quotes
The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force for the creation of the trade unions in the 19th century.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don't see the point of going back and doing the same thing over again. Baywatch was fun and successful, probably because we didn't know what the heck we were doing.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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First appearance deceives many.
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As an actor, I'm in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn't fit in with family life, there's more flexibility.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.
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I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.
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You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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It takes more than driving to become an IndyCar driver. Gone are the days when drivers show up Friday morning and go home Sunday night. We're all integral to our partnerships, commercially, motorsports. We're as much champions in the boardroom as we are on the racetrack.
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When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision.
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The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force for the creation of the trade unions in the 19th century.
