David Blunkett Quotes

As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.

David Blunkett

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London is great, but New York is the greatest city in the world.

John McEnroe

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If football is your passion in life and you would rather play football for 20 years and have a shortened life span, that's your choice.

Ann McKee

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When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.

Amanda Seyfried

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You don't let a historic site rot.

Robert Ballard

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I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

Robert Caro

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Many people think children must have chips. I don't think any household should have a deep fat fryer.

Mary Berry

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I think it's going to end up a lot like the Internet. Some countries try to regulate the Internet - bitcoin will be very much like that. It will be legal, and there will be some countries with currency control.

Brian Armstrong

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It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.

Philip Gibbs

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What made al-Awlaki so influential is that, unlike a number of leaders of al Qaeda such as Osama bin Laden, he was a cleric, so he could present himself as a leading religious figure. Second, because al-Awlaki had spent much of his adult life in the States, he communicated with his followers in colloquial, accessible American English.

Peter Bergen

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I don't know if I'll ever get married. I have no plans to not get married.

Hozier

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As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Henry David Thoreau

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Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

Gloria Naylor

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