Douglas Alexander Quotes
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
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My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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Taste is an evolution and refinement of one’s personal likes and dislikes. This evolution takes place with a constant curiosity and interest in everything. The editing consequently refines the choices and defines taste.
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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
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Getting to know people as they are is very, very important.
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My first book is really comparable to what I do now, where it's pretty surreal and strange at moments, but that being my first book - I wrote that when I was 22; it came out when I was 24 - and it was just really overwritten. I just didn't trust myself as a writer to say something once.
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Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.
