David Blunkett Quotes
Despite being in public life, I value my own privacy immensely and would be as concerned as anyone else if I thought my mobile phone records could be easily available to officials across government.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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I actually spoke at the christening of the USS Minnesota - it was a really, very cool submarine in Norfolk.
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I like someone who doesn't take life too seriously. I hate people who are a bit uptight.
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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
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For me to get out in the congressional district that I represent and see all the things that we manufacture there, produce there, to get to know its people better, its businesses better and its government leaders better, all of those things have enriched me.
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Despite being in public life, I value my own privacy immensely and would be as concerned as anyone else if I thought my mobile phone records could be easily available to officials across government.
