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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Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.
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I feel it's the conscious mind that messes things up. The conscious mind is constantly telling you, this might happen or that might happen, even before it has happened. Your conscious mind tells you the next ball might be a out-swinger, but when it's coming at you you realize it's an in-swinger... so literally, you've played two balls.
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No one believes me when I talk about this, but I'm really, really maternal.
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I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
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Urgency creates decision making.
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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.
