David Miliband Quotes
I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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People don't say they're pregnant until the second trimester. I intellectually understand that you don't want the whole world to know your business, but at the same time, what does that mean? You don't tell your employers you're pregnant, but then when you miscarry, no one knows you miscarried. Miscarrying is a horrible, painful event.
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Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.
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I'm fortunate to live in Wyoming, one of the most beautiful, pristine places in the world.
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You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.
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Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.
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I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.
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I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.
