David Miliband Quotes
But for me, my personal relations, my personal family relations, are very important, and we've always tried to make sure that the public and the private are kept separate.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
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What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.
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Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
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Money is really like blood. You need it to live but it isn't the point of life.
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In cases of rape, trying to prevent pregnancies is obviously the best thing. The morning-after pill works successfully most of the time. Ultimately we do better if we do have better education about family planning.
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Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
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But for me, my personal relations, my personal family relations, are very important, and we've always tried to make sure that the public and the private are kept separate.
