David Blunkett Quotes
I am not a parliamentarian. I am a politician. Some MPs leave and are itching to get back. I don't feel that. This is just a work environment.
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
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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 don't like attacking.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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I hope I'll consider my next part, having learnt from this one.
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If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.
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It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.
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Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
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I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.
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I am not a parliamentarian. I am a politician. Some MPs leave and are itching to get back. I don't feel that. This is just a work environment.
