"Friends have suggested that I am the least……" — Alastair Campbell
"Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness."
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35 Quotes by Alastair Campbell
Alastair Campbell has 35 quotes on this site.
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My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
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May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen…
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The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our…
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The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his…
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There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
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Jeremy, are we going to play your games?
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Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.
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My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the…
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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so…
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One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.
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By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is…
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So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life…
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I couldn't be with someone who is depressed all the time.
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If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go…
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Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.
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As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me…
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Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down…
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When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
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My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason,…
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There is a difference between executive producing and producing. Producing, you have no life for two years. You take everything…
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I used to get out of bed sometimes and feel depressed and watched a lot of reruns on TV to…
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The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed…
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