David Blunkett Quotes

The government wants to be able to attack extremism and hatred wherever it occurs.

David Blunkett

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• Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Successful
  • Down
  • Limits

• Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Hate

• When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Song

• At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Dad
  • Day
  • Journey

• They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Song
  • Dance
  • Tomorrow

• The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • World
  • Great
  • Guy

• In life, there's a ladder sometimes, and maybe at the top, there's a mirror. You take a step up, then maybe three steps down... just because you don't want to face the decloaking in the mirror.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mirror

• I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I like to share ideas.

  

  Maiwenn
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Obstacle

• I have scored some big-time goals. I've done well in Algarve Cups. I've done well in World Cup and Olympic qualifiers, Olympics. In big games when we're playing top-five teams. But yet, you never see my face or my name out there. And it has frustrated me my entire career.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Time
  • World
  • Done

• I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Mankind
  • Improve

• Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Quality
  • Balance
  • Attitude

• Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness – when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven’t had time to know how much better it ought to be.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Time
  • Mind

• We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may 'conquer' them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • May
  • Nature

• It’s still unfathomable that Russia went from joyously celebrating the end of totalitarianism to electing a KGB lieutenant-colonel in just nine years. Never take your liberty for granted, and be careful whom you vote for because it may be the last election you’ll ever have.

  Garry Kasparov
  • May

• 'I will ask them all, I will ask them all their dreams,I will hold my light above them and seek their faces.I will hear them whisper, invisible in their veins . . .'The eternal asker of answers becomes as the darkness,Or as a wind blown over a myriad forest,Or as the numberless voices of long-drawn rains.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Long
  • Light
  • Wind

• For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• No man can be stronger than his destiny.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • Destiny

• If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Doing
  • Research
  • Knew

• Big Bird is based on what I learned as a child.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Bird

• I don't recall having a gun. I really don't. I don't think I ever pulled a gun on anyone in my life.

  

  Darrell Issa
  • Life
  • Gun

• All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Spiritual
  • Service
  • Wine

• The government wants to be able to attack extremism and hatred wherever it occurs.

  

  David Blunkett