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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Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.
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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.'
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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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The nice thing about doing a pop opera - in the way that doing, say, 'Miss Saigon' or 'Les Miz' would be - is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an opera and everything is sung, there is never that feeling of 'Why is this person bursting out into song?' because the whole thing is sung.
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You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.
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It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo. It is time for a new strategy to produce what we need: a stable Iraq government that takes over for its own people so our troops can finish their job.
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?
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I do not think that any composer has ever asked for octave glissandi on the black keys, but there is a recording by Moriz Rosenthal of Chopin's Black-Key Etude in which he plays the short octave passage in both hands glissando: it hurts my hands just to think about it.
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We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.
