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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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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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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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.
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I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.
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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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When people come up to me and say 'oh, your singing made me cry', it's nice to realise that you're making other people happy, but I don't know how I do it. I just sing.
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I've been able to carve my way out with lyrics and melodies.
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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I think the picture in Jet magazine showing Emmett Till's mutilation was probably the greatest media product in the last forty or fifty years because that picture stimulated a lot of interest and anger on the part of blacks all over the country.
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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!
