David Blunkett Quotes
It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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I am definitely still the same kid that I was picking up the guitar at 15. But, I have definitely learned to be more flexible and roll with the punches. It's such an unpredictable business to be in and it's insane how things change so last minute.
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I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
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There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.
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Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.
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Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
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Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
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I wasn't a rebel.
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Conspiracy theories feed on opacity, and that's a longtime problem with short selling. Large long positions must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in public filings, but not large short positions.
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My mum says part of the reason we moved house, it was a rough area at the time, was down to that - they wanted to help me.
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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
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I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.
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It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.
