David Blunkett Quotes
Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.
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In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.
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I haven't been shooting well the past five games. But I never stop shooting. If I'm open, I'm going to shoot.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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When Carpenter was shooting 'Vampires' in New Mexico when I was living there, I desperately tried to get a job working on that film, and I couldn't. So my first job as a PA was on a CBS movie of the week that was shooting next door, and whenever I could, I would sneak over so I could watch.
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I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.
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Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.
