David Blunkett Quotes

If you don't create a sense of order and stability, if people do not feel secure, then progressive politics is dead. That is a fact of history. The right has always emerged supreme when destabilisation and insecurity prevail.

David Blunkett

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The friendships I made on 'L.A. Law,' with the cast and Steven Bochco and David Kelley were really wonderful.

Jimmy Smits

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Both my sisters and I were in Stage Door plays, and we did that together, just in, like, little small plays together. And we did that, and it was really fun, and we kinda did commercials, and it kinda took off from there. It was great; it's what I love.

Joey King

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The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms.

Johannes Stark

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First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: 'Tell your sons to take their names off the books. Don't show up at the courthouse voting day.'

Medgar Evers

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That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

Michael Connelly

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When someone says 'Yasss queen!' to me, I turn around and, X-Men style, run through a wall. You'll never hear from me again.

Trixie Mattel

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What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.

Tom Hodgkinson

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I've learned not to buy into what other people say. I've learned not to put dreams in other people's hands.

Michael Oher

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Digital makes things feel more real, like you could reach out and touch them.

Michael Mann

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Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Louis Kronenberger

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I used to think that deadlines should be ignored until the product was ready: that they were a nuisance, a hurdle in front of quality, a forced measure to get something out the door for the good of the schedule, not the customer.

Jason Fried

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Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

Dora Russell

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