David Blunkett Quotes

As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leaked, the windows rattled, and they relied entirely on outside toilets.

David Blunkett

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A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

John Millington Synge

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The biggest thing I'm seeing - and I have to be careful what I say here - is that people are tired of the old guard and the familiar brands. They're looking for more individuality and creativity, and that's coming out of this whole new wave of younger brands: Thom Browne, Michael Bastian, Robert Geller, myself.

Simon Spurr

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Back in the early days of WWE, I remember doing 20 interviews every Tuesday, one right after the other on different topics.

Roddy Piper

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Early on, people told me I was making Chinese people look bad. I've been living with this accent. I had already been doing standup for a while. I knew my voice already. I myself never wanted to make my accent the butt of the joke. I never want it to be, 'I'm laughing at your accent.'

Ronny Chieng

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My mother at a young age put me in bilingual, so my strength is really more in Spanish. Even though I live and I was born and raised in the States, you know, in the Bronx, in Spanish I get my point across. And when I'm writing music, when I'm doing music, it's easier for me, and I know exactly how to express myself.

Romeo Santos

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Having such high-profile parents could be intimidating, but really, they've let me do my own thing and evolve as a person. When I changed my major from economics to film, they were cool about it.

Roshni Nadar

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Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

Mike Pence

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Before stand-up, I'm not sure I even had a point of view.

Michelle Wolf

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The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.

Jason Wu

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Diane Ackerman

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Surf music is played through a Showman amp with a Stratocaster guitar.

Dick Dale

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I started out poking fun at this YouTube thing.

Colleen Ballinger

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