David Blunkett Quotes

In Sheffield, we need support from the community and for the community. We need integration with no loss of heritage, and a clear appreciation of what is and is not acceptable.

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• I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Rest

• France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Latin
  • France

• My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Life
  • Good
  • Believe

• My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Wrong
  • Places

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Inspiration
  • Stories
  • Movies

• Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Up
  • Business
  • Ideas

• There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Up
  • Education
  • Human

• I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Want
  • Goal
  • Legend

• When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Up
  • Audience
  • Mirror

• Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Journey

• It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Thought
  • Personality
  • Voice

• The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Guitarist
  • Taylor
  • Coleman

• Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Violence
  • Anger
  • Last

• Gluttony is not a secret vice.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Secret
  • Vice
  • Gluttony

• Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Powerful
  • Rich

• I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Time
  • Creative
  • Equality

• As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Life
  • Future
  • Judge

• The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in the shortest possible time and higher visual and auditory retention of data.

  

  Will Burtin
  • Design
  • Problems
  • Possible

• I like disagreement because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel that way.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Why
  • Question
  • Feel

• As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past few years, than providing for what is needed for the protection and security of our country and support of our troops.

  

  Jim Ryun
  • Country
  • Past
  • Support

• In Sheffield, we need support from the community and for the community. We need integration with no loss of heritage, and a clear appreciation of what is and is not acceptable.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Community
  • Support
  • Appreciation