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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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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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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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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Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.
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I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more.
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They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.
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I am at one of the best clubs in the world and in the best league. And in my private life, everything is also going very well. At 25, I feel in the right place.
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and then suddenly having it - and getting on planes and going to Ibiza and sitting around in thongs. But actually nothing I was writing or doing was even vaguely Thatcherite.
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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.
