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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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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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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You look like a normal person, if you can find a normal person who wants to look like that.
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I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.
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It was all I could do to not knock him down right there in front of Asher and climb on him. If I stunned him with a frying pan first, he might not struggle too much.…
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The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.
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I'm going to preach there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from, and no Redemption because there was no Fall, and no Judgment because there wasn't the first two. Nothing matters but that Jesus was a liar.
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It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.
