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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The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out.
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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 so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.
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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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When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.
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If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.
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It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.
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We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.
