Douglas Alexander Quotes
David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.Douglas Alexander
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Iris Murdoch -
I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
Walter Cronkite -
I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
Dan Gable -
There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
Sadie Frost -
When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss -
We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
Carl Honore -
I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.
Tara Lynne Barr -
I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
Tania Raymonde -
I take a lot of pictures.
Damian Loeb -
I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
Imelda May
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
Nathan Fillion -
Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
Paloma Faith -
If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
Nate Diaz -
Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
Caitlyn Jenner -
If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
Rainbow Rowell
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We need to ensure that our voice is heard in the process because obviously we do have different views and we can't always accept fait d' accompli positions when they clearly don't reflect the view of our constituents.
Olympia Snowe -
You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
Tamora Pierce -
But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.
Sarah Dessen -
If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.
Satish Kumar -
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
Orison Swett Marden -
David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.
Douglas Alexander