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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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
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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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Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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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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Lennon was right. And we are bigger than Jesus. We will be as big as the Beatles, if not bigger.
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I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.
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You win a fight, you learn from it. You lose a fight, you learn from it.
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I don't write punch lines.
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It is hard working with animals, I've got to say.
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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.
