David Miliband Quotes

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

David Miliband

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• I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • School
  • Small
  • Environment

• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Myself
  • Care
  • Take Care

• Upsi is definitely the more romantic of the two. I am more laid back. We do have our differences of opinion sometimes. Upsi is always the first one to break the ice after an argument or a difference of opinion. That's what I love most about her.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Opinion
  • Romantic
  • Difference

• Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • She
  • College
  • Drama

• City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • City
  • Health
  • Measure

• There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Love
  • For Her

• If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • You
  • Find

• I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Wish
  • Taller

• My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Jobs
  • Would
  • Steve Jobs

• My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Effort

• The most destructive criticism is indifference.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Criticism
  • Indifference

• 'Almost everything interesting in the human experience is the result of an individual experiencing, experimenting, explaining, and sharing,' said my young friend. 'A hive mind would be the ancient television broadcasts, or life at the height of the datasphere...consensual idiocy.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Experience

• For art to be art it has to cure.

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Art

• Worms seize leaves and other objects, not only to serve as food, but for plugging up the mouths of their burrows; and this is one of their strongest instincts.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Up
  • Food

• 'What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?''I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps.''Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?' 'Comprehension.'

  

  Albert Camus
  • May
  • Earth
  • Hand

• I am yours. If you feed me garbage, I will sing a song of garbage. This is a hymn.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Song

• See, I'm a Pisces, so I get down with love songs. I'm totally into slow jams and old-school R&B, all that.

  

  Blake Anderson
  • School
  • Pisces

• I play a lot of, maybe a little bit, cartoonish people. I've been a Bond villain, and I play a lot of villains, people who want to take over something.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People

• I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Swear
  • Underwear

• Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

  

  David Frum
  • Country

• I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Games
  • Next
  • Greedy

• Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

  

  David Miliband