David Blanchflower Quotes
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company's offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth.
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It's not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel that I need to push myself harder to pay back for all the good fortune that I have received.
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
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If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.
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Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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I think just knowing you're married and having that in the back of your mind all the time - it sounds official, but it doesn't really feel any different. We don't do anything differently than we did before.
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Ours was not always a nation of homeowners; the New Deal fashioned it so, particularly through the G.I. Bill of Rights.
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I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
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Retirement should be a happier time, conditioned upon not being ill.
