Douglas Alexander Quotes
My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
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With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.
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With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
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The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
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My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.
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Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.
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Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
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I don't like to consider myself a normal preacher. When you look at religious people, they're the ones who hung Christ from the cross. I look at myself as a man carrying a message of hope.
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I never interned. The first job I ever had was a very low-paying job, and the guy running the radio station was so poor, he couldn't pay us sometimes - so it's almost like an internship, right?
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The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.
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If you asked me to sing a modern song, I wouldn't be able to - I can't easily slip into that groove. But if it were a song by Nico or The Velvet Underground, fine.
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I've endured humiliating experiences trying to get a cab in the various cities I've visited and lived in. Available taxis - as indicated by their roof lights - locked their doors with embarrassingly loud clicks as I approached. Or they've just ignored my hail altogether.
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My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.
