David Blunkett Quotes
As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.
Quotes to Explore
-
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
-
I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
-
There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
-
My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
-
You can't just let nature run wild.
-
I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
-
At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
-
I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
-
I am a Zionist.
-
The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
-
My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
-
I'm not the girl next door.
-
I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
-
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
-
When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
-
I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
-
I don't do meetings.
-
Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
-
I love watching faces as they grow up. It's the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women. I like a face that hasn't been tampered with.
-
I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.
-
Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
-
It was traumatic for my children to see the British army en masse coming into our home and searching the house. I recall on one occasion, when our home was raided, my youngest son was standing at the top of the stairs - he would probably have been only three years of age - in his pyjamas. The soldiers came up the stairs, and he peed himself.
-
The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.
-
As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.
