David Miliband Quotes
Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the parties should not stymie international clarity and consensus about the endgame in terms of borders and other issues.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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When I first lived in a model apartment... It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, 'You're making all the girls fat.' They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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All my songs are where I am.
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I can easily sleep from nine to 13 hours a night.
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So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.
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It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.
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Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.
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The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
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One thinks with awe and longing of this real and extraordinary popularity of hers Edna St. Vincent Millay’s: if there were some poet-Frost, Stevens, Eliot-whom people still read in canoes!
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If all the 300 (top civil servants and political elite) were to crash in one jumbo jet, then Singapore will disintegrate.
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If there is one who’s not free, then I am not free. If there is one who suffers, then I suffer.
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I was honoured to be on our next performer’s new video. And if I ever record an album, I want this guy to produce it and make me beautiful duets, ‘cause he’s a freakin’ genius!
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I realize that once I stopped fighting the technical process of how to move my body, I made it choreography.
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During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.
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Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the parties should not stymie international clarity and consensus about the endgame in terms of borders and other issues.
