Douglas Alexander Quotes
What matters in any campaign is that you have a strategic core that makes the judgements, decides the strategy, and can deliver.
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Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
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Every single day I'm shocked.
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I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
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I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.
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As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.
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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
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If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.
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Fresh egg pasta is traditionally served in the north of Italy with butter, cream and rich meat sauces, whereas dried pasta is more at home with the tomato- and olive oil-based ones of the south.
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There were no wrestling schools in Ireland. It was completely unheard of.
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When I graduated from college, I went straight to work for a federal contractor, a desk job, and they were great to me, they loved me, I was like their mascot, but I just couldn't stand working in an office. I just hated it. And so one day I went in and said, 'I'm sorry, this is my two-weeks notice, I'm quitting to become an artist.'
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Instead of understanding the crisis facing the country and helping the country, the opposition wants to weaken the country by its deeds.
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Choir of Men: There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed. Choir of Women: And yet you are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily. (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
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We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of hurting someone's feelings. But what I have seen on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is that no one benefits from holding back and keeping things bottled up inside. So I pride myself on speaking my mind and not being afraid to give honest feedback.
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Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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When you are young your imagination is so clear.
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What matters in any campaign is that you have a strategic core that makes the judgements, decides the strategy, and can deliver.
