Douglas Alexander Quotes
The Olympics is a time primarily for sport and celebration, but diplomacy does not stop at the door of the U.N., and for it to work, it must be sustained and consistent.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.
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I think calling for more women in every aspect of this industry is a sensible thing.
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I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.
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One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.
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I don't think I could advocate for increasing NASA's budget by a factor of two or ten, because I want us to have good roads in our country. I want us to have good education in our country. And NASA's budget is part of a discretionary budget, and we can't make that bigger without taking away other things.
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The Olympics is a time primarily for sport and celebration, but diplomacy does not stop at the door of the U.N., and for it to work, it must be sustained and consistent.
