Douglas Alexander Quotes
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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I don't like allegories.
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On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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I like the idea of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban of discrimination based on sexual orientation. It would be simple. It would be straightforward.
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I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
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I recognize that every role I play, I'm not going to play someone that has a ministry or that is a Christian, and I don't think that's what God has called me to do. The gift and talent that He's given me as an actor, director, producer is to entertain, sometimes to inform, most times to inspire.
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Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.
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Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.
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If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.
