David Miliband Quotes
Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.
Quotes to Explore
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.
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I don't live for my work. My life is my life. That's more important, and I think that helps my work.
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I was not the hot, popular girl in school.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.
