David Miliband Quotes

We keep the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom under very careful scrutiny. We think it's right to keep the public informed about the general threat level.

David Miliband

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• I have lived a carnal life.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • Lived
  • Carnal

• On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.

  

  Iman
  • Thought
  • Birthday
  • Mail

• If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Car

• I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Life
  • Support
  • My Life

• Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Friend
  • Things
  • Him

• I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Age
  • Lead
  • Landscape

• I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Fun

• I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I'm not sure writers think of themselves in the same way.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Science
  • Beginning

• I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Better

• I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Women
  • Home

• It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Good
  • Culture
  • Positive

• I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Up
  • Great
  • Band

• Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Dance
  • Stage
  • Just Because

• Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Die
  • Ideas
  • Will

• Purity Is obscurity.

  

  Ogden Nash

• The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Men

• In concentration, the consciousness is held to a single image; the whole attention of the Knower is fixed on a single point, without wavering or swerving.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Attention
  • Single

• From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Life
  • Different

• If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Genius
  • Critics
  • Complain

• I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring.

  

  Mary Timony
  • Music
  • Rock

• They (food companies) are putting $36 billion into directing those choices. And their methods are very effective.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Food
  • Choices
  • Companies

• We keep the terrorist threat to the United Kingdom under very careful scrutiny. We think it's right to keep the public informed about the general threat level.

  

  David Miliband