David Miliband Quotes
John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the 'Con' into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the 'vat' into Conservative!
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
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The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
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Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.
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The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
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I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
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I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.
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There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.
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A mother's pride, a father's joy.
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India has introduced me to my ultimate passion - acting. I don't plan to give it up, and I intend to stay here for a long, long time.
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I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years.
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As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
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Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.
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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.
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John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the 'Con' into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the 'vat' into Conservative!
