There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all.

All businessmen are scum.

I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

I think I've had a very privileged life.

If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.

God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.

Most brands want to see their products used in creative ways.

That's one of the challenges of investing in China, is the lack of clarity with respect to tax positions.

Every next level of your life will demand a different you.

The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.

I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.

We all know that one can never recreate the magic of an original film.

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

Best friends are like stars. You dont always see them but you know they are always there.

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must nevertheless suffer for it.

The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.

Purposes like eggs unless they be hatched into action will run into rottenness.

The way things have changed. The pictures in the womb they have now. They're just amazing. They're just like a snapshot of a person.

I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!

I was born the year the Troubles began, in 1968. That world of violence was all I knew - people murdered, maimed, kneecapped, bombed. I don't remember a time without a major atrocity of some kind every week.

Most account guys live with fear in their hearts.

There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.

I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.

I believe in pay for performance.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.