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 just don't want to be self-obsessed.
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I'd never directed before and this movie's too important to me to put in the hands of some guy who has never directed. Even if it's me.
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If I could meet anybody? The prophet Muhammad.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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I did a play in Bolton - 'Billy Liar.' I turned it down at first but then thought, 'What the hell else can I do? I'm no good at anything else.'
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I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.
