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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
-
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.
-
To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
-
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.
-
I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
-
I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
-
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
-
I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
-
I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
-
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.
-
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
-
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
-
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.
-
You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
-
The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.
-
I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.
-
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
-
Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports.
-
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
-
And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
-
I can't work in Brooklyn. Unless I'm completely locked away in a studio, there's just too much distraction and stimulation.
-
We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.
-
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.
