David Miliband Quotes
Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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The term we use on our team is 'reset': when you go through, whether it's a negative play or a negative drive, and you get your next opportunity - not focusing on the past, but going back into your attack mode.
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Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting.
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It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.
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Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.
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Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.
