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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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.
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Sometimes you have to change the mold. If people keep following the same Hollywood mold, you're going to get the same thing. And as a Black actress, there's not a whole lot out there for us, unless we're creating it.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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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.
