David Miliband Quotes
I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.
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I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.
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You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
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I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.
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I didn't have to listen to nobody or look how anybody wanted me to look. I just wanted to be myself and look however I want.
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The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.
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I actually used to be a front for the largest national sports-betting syndicate in America.
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One of the most persistent ambiguities that we face is that everybody talks about peace as a goal. However, it does not take sharpest-eyed sophistication to discern that while everbody talks about peace, peace has become practically nobody's business among the power-wielders. Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
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One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.
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I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.
