"It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS."

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Source : "Labour created the NHS and has safeguarded its future" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

Lucy Powell

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“I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural. I've done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it's happened to hundreds of people before me.”
“We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.”

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“But if you search further, you find in yourself nothing similar to God, but rather you affirm that God stands above all this as cause, origin, and the light of life of your intellective soul.”
“Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every single ***** moment. And you aren't bliss, I'll tell you that right now. You're a mess. We all are.”
“There are so many reality shows on now where they want you to be crazy, the girls are just going bananas; you know how they portray brown girls. They portray us in a different type of light.”
“Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.”
“Feel yourself grounded to the earth, while your mind is focusing on the sky of clarity.”
“I think we are part of the earth. The concept of the rainforest being the womb of life is something I believe in...the value system must get back to the environment as it was originally, the magnificence from where we emerged.”

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