David Blunkett Quotes
Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.
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Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.
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Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society.
