David Miliband Quotes

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.

David Miliband

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  Walt Mossberg
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• Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

  

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• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

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• With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.

  

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• I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

  

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• Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.

  

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• I love anything to do with history.

  

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• A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.

  

  Abbie Cornish
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• I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.

  

  Raf Simons
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• One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.

  

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• People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.

  

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• Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.

  

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• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  

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• You who speak languages, you are such liars.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

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• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
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• I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.

  

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• I think L.A. is underrated, and I love L.A., and I was born in California. But I'm pretty sure New York is the best city in the world - at least for an American guy like me.

  

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• If you were offered the opportunity to be TOTALLY happy tomorrow, would you take it? If yes, (and I suspect most of us would say yes) what are you doing TODAY to make tomorrow be a happier day than today?

  

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• Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.

  

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• The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.

  

  David Miliband
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