David Miliband Quotes

Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.

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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.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • America
  • Politics
  • Expect

• 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.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Cricket

• 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.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Long
  • Mind
  • King

• 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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • May
  • Politics
  • Go

• 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.

  

  Imelda May
  • Good
  • Money
  • Dad

• I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• 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.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• 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.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • God
  • Career

• Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Men
  • Three
  • Lady

• I am an artist who works with Lego.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Artist
  • Works
  • Lego

• I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Doing

• Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.

  

  Jack Black
  • Plan
  • Diet
  • Strict

• Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.

  

  Barry White
  • Strong
  • Streets
  • Mama

• I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.

  

  Matt Cameron Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• On the security front the entire Nato exercise was one that caused Afghanistan a lot of suffering, a lot of loss of life, and no gains because the country is not secure.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Life
  • Country
  • Suffering

• If you want to get to know a character, learn about their interests, goals or desires, their butt is probably not going to give you that information.

  

  Anita Sarkeesian
  • Character
  • Goals

• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.

  

  David Miliband
  • World
  • Power
  • Responsibility