David Blunkett Quotes
I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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To be a striker you need to be in good shape.
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All these corporations don't want their drivers to ruin their image, so you can't say what you think. You're basically not allowed to have a personality. How can you have any heroes if you don't allow personalities?
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If he does he's a fool," said Hazael. "The message is clear. Please enjoy this lovely fruit while contemplating all the ways we might kill you in your sleep.
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Basically, what I do is place a stop, generally 10 to 20 percent below the current price, whenever I buy a stock. The exact level depends on my own analysis of a stock's trading pattern. If a stock violates this stop, I'm out.
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If you really want to follow me and know what I'm doing, it's Instagram. You know which city I'm in and what I'm doing. It's almost in real time.
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I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.
