Douglas Alexander Quotes
As shadow foreign secretary, I have been as clear in my support for the government when it does something we agree with as I am in highlighting that which we oppose.
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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R. C. Buford has been a huge help to me with his support.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce.
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I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
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I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.
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It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And in 'I'd Do Anything,' I've had so much support from folks back home, no matter what side they're on.
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Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.
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I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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My fans are going to support me through thick and thin; 100 per cent, they'll always support me.
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I work hard and support myself.
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The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.
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Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to stay in the race.
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All sports should get support from the government and corporate bodies.
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President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.
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It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.
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I used to like John McCain, too, but I must admit that was because he was bucking his party to do things I agreed with. I would not have had that reaction if, say, Bernie Sanders decided to rebel out of principle and support privatizing Social Security.
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Discrimination in any form is wrong. I don't support discrimination in any form.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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I don't practice per se. I learned to play on my own, taught myself how to play. I've never really had a lesson, and I don't read music. So all the stuff that I do doesn't come from the normal set of disciplines that they teach you where you sit down and run through scales for a particular number of minutes a day.
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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
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I'm drawn to a lot of first-time directors. One of the great common denominators in these small independent films is that there's a person, or two people, who have an absolutely monomaniacal passion to get these films made. That's what makes them happen. Sometimes, it takes years and years to finally get it done, but by never backing down, by never giving up, they get these films to the screen by hook or by crook.
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As shadow foreign secretary, I have been as clear in my support for the government when it does something we agree with as I am in highlighting that which we oppose.
