Douglas Alexander Quotes
We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.
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You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.
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If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.
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I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.
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You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
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When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.
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When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dreams of being an actress. Kids back home in Texas, who I thought were my friends, were saying things behind my back. They said that I would never make it because I wasn't talented or pretty enough to be on TV.
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Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves and, most importantly, to our children.
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I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.
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I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.
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I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.
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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
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I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly.
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Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergartner.
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The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.
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I love Neil Young. And he loves me! We have a great relationship.
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No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.
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We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.
