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.

David Blunkett

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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.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Me
  • Kid
  • Tales

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • Age
  • Parents

• To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Single
  • Day
  • Never

• 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.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Long
  • Career
  • Golf

• I don't like attacking.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Like
  • Attacking

• I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Dance

• A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Character
  • Like
  • Story

• I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • You
  • Mean
  • Door

• I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Kids
  • Arts
  • Income

• 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.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Me
  • Child
  • Acting

• A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Me
  • Marriage

• I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Think
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• 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.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Want
  • You
  • Message

• 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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• 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.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Think
  • Never
  • Look

• You are a good friend and we welcome you.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Good
  • Friend

• It's hard to accept yourself when you live in a world where nobody is like you, or you feel like nobody is like you because there's no representation.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • World
  • Live

• I have quite a bit of experience reporting on corporate behavior, both doing it with independent operations in early in my career, in the underground press, to magazines like 'Rolling Stone,' to regional newspapers and television, and television news programs, to papers like the 'New York Times' and public television.

  

  Lowell Bergman
  • Experience
  • Career
  • Independent

• With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.

  

  Dorothy Denning
  • People
  • Believe
  • Done

• I've been lucky enough that in the U.K., I've done shows that have aired once a week. I make a show there that runs seasonally, and we make one episode a week, and that is great - the value of time. You can really think and finesse what you want to do.

  

  James Corden
  • Time
  • Great
  • Done

• 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.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Work
  • Environment