David Blunkett Quotes
We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.
Quotes to Explore
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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My mum taught me to always make sure you protect your skin with SPF. I always make sure I put my St. Tropez SPF on my face every morning, no matter the weather, before I go out of the house.
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The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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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 will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.
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Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.
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People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.
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Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in a automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at a terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all marked "progress."
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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Once in a while, you'll get somebody who watched 'One Tree Hill' and 'Supernatural,' but by and large, whoever watches one show is very distinct. There's not a lot of crossover. It's like, 'This is my show, and I love this show. I know everything about this show. My show is my show, and it will be until I die.'
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We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.
