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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Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.
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I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.
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Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer.
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There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators who provide intelligent and objective insight on public policy matters.
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Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.
