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.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Honor
  • Down
  • Turn

• 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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Power
  • Strong

• 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.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• 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.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Feeling
  • Never
  • Returning

• Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Choice

• 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.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • World
  • High
  • Doing

• We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Grow
  • Aging

• 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.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Art
  • Book
  • Wife

• Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Church

• Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.

  

  Aga Khan IV
  • Progress

• I often use Sweden as a discouraging example to promte a free and open debate and maintain a strict immigration policy.

  

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen
  • Free
  • Immigration

• I got magic and I got poetry in my fingertips.

  

  Charlie Sheen
  • Poetry
  • Magic

• '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
  • Long
  • Women
  • High

• Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Jimmy Smits

• 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.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Believe
  • Women

• Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

  

  Jacques Barzun
  • Great
  • Mind

• We have to wonder, if there is a multiverse, in some other patch of that multiverse are there creatures?

  

  Janna Levin
  • Wonder

• The barks of trees are best gathered in the spring, if it be of great trees, as oaks or the like, because they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all barks only for present use.

  

  Nicholas Culpeper
  • Spring
  • Best Way
  • Barks

• The goal when you get into a relationship is not to be out of the relationship. It's to try to stay in the relationship. But if it doesn't work, you can't force those things.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Relationship
  • Goal

• Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.

  

  Diego Luna

• We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

  

  Douglas Alexander