David Blunkett Quotes

In primary schools, I set two main objectives - to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.

David Blunkett

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• I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Others

• Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Great
  • Kids
  • You

• No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Help
  • Door
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• I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Music
  • Different
  • Football

• I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Father
  • Hate
  • Support

• I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.

  

  Natasha Little
  • People
  • Think
  • Feelings

• I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Think
  • Best

• The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Science
  • Know
  • Progress

• I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Think
  • Universe
  • Humor

• When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Finding

• I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Television
  • Watch

• There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mind
  • May
  • True

• I'm part Filipino, part Japanese, part Chinese, part Malaysian, and part Spanish, and all those people, they love their karaoke. So whenever my family got together, we'd all karaoke.

  

  Manika
  • People
  • Family
  • Together

• I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Spanish

• I don't think Ed Horman could be dishonest if his life depended on it.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Life
  • Think
  • Dishonest

• I believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become magazines, and all media companies will become stores. There will be too many of all of them. The strongest ones, the ones who offer the best customer experience, will survive.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Best

• My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Parents
  • Born
  • Los Angeles

• Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

  

  Chet Atkins

• I don't colour my hair, and I look like the back end of a bus, so I get asked to play old people.

  

  Gemma Jones
  • People
  • Hair

• Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

  

  Jim Palmer

• The 'Black Album' was my real first introduction to Metallica. I was, like, 12 or 13 at the time. We were just getting into music, and I liked that album a lot, but it didn't necessarily change my life. But when I started picking up all the other Metallica records, 'Master of Puppets' was the one to me that stuck out with its songwriting.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Creativity
  • Remain
  • Girts

• Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Universe
  • Drugs
  • Powers

• In primary schools, I set two main objectives - to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.

  

  David Blunkett