David Blunkett Quotes
Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks - with which I am all too familiar, having been brought up in the city of Sheffield; and it certainly isn't badly paid compared with any of my constituents.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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I love anything really feminine. I love any sort of girly detail - anything with a bow or a heart on it, I'm immediately in love with.
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The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
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I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.
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Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks - with which I am all too familiar, having been brought up in the city of Sheffield; and it certainly isn't badly paid compared with any of my constituents.
