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We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

~Alastair Campbell

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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.

~Alastair Campbell

Topics: About Am Because Depressed Down Friends Happiness Helps Know Least Often Person Profoundly Qualification Qualified Sometimes Suggested Talk Think Unhappiness Where I Think I Am

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By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

~Alastair Campbell

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So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

~Alastair Campbell

Topics: Cannot Close Closest Death Died Doubt End Felt Friend Had Happiness Happy Happy Life He Here Know Life Life And Death Like Limb Lived Lost Philip Politics Reinforced Theories Truly Until Very View We Cannot Without Witnessing

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I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.

~Alastair Campbell

Topics: Able Books Campaigns Countries Endured Experiences Fight Film First Intensity Made More Novel Pleasure Range Recall See Want Work Write

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Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

~Alastair Campbell

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There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

~Alastair Campbell

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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

~Alastair Campbell

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The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

~Alastair Campbell

Topics: First Get Greater Late Pressures Right Sometimes Story Than Wrong

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The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.

~Alastair Campbell

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: May 25th, 1957

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