Douglas Alexander Quotes
We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.
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I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
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The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle - assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.
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It’s the art-magazine ‘Circle’ been reprinted and it’s now referred to as classic. Well it is. But w:Ben Nicholson, Sir Leslie Martin, Gabo and Leslie Martin’s wife, Sadie Speaight, and I did that. We were sitting round the fire and we said, ‘Why shouldn’t we do a book?’ And so we started and now it’s a classic and referred to as such.
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Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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I often use Sweden as a discouraging example to promte a free and open debate and maintain a strict immigration policy.
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I got magic and I got poetry in my fingertips.
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'Women have come a long way, of course: we can all be left alone at night now. But sometimes it seems a high price to pay. We can also open the door cheerfully to strangers at any hour, deal with obscene telephone calls and mend fuses.'
Anita Brookner -
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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When you're doing 22 shows on network television, the writers are going on vapors towards the end and, as an actor, you're just trashed by the end.
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I can't tell you how many 30-year-old dudes believe they should be senator or president. Women, we're like, 'Well, maybe after ten years of working...' No. Just run for the office you want to run for and run on the issue you want to fix.
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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
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The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
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A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
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One thing is certain: we will not be successful in this fight against ISIS and other extremist groups unless countries in the region are a major part of the coalition.
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By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.
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We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.
