David Miliband Quotes
The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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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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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surprising, because I'm the biggest enthusiast on the city of Nashville now. I'm looking for a place out here to live.
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I look at this game from a different perspective.
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I'm involved with a baroque opera company here in Italy. I write some of their booklet material, comments on operas. I also write for some baroque opera festivals because this music is my real passion.
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I think that idea of 'because I'm sexy, I'm a feminist' is kind of immature. But as long as women think being sexy is what makes them beautiful and powerful... then it will continue.
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The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
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The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.
