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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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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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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-what an odd thing it is, that the indications of terror are usually ludicrous !
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For a large number of problems there will be some animal of choice or a few such animals on which it can be most conveniently studied.
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I think that gay people should have the right to get married by Elvis like everybody else.
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Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.
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I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system.
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My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.
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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
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A media-only campaign has its advantages, but it also has its very severe disadvantages.
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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!
