Douglas Alexander Quotes
In sport, as in science, business, and diplomacy, as Scots we understand that we benefit from the deep and diverse partnerships that make up the United Kingdom.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
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I have a particular image, and my customers know my line isn't going to be so trendy it will be out of style next year.
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A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.
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Obviously, we think it's important to make sure that firearms do not get in the hands of people who are criminals, convicted felons or adjudicated as mentally ill.
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Sweet little rock and roller, sweet little rock and roller Her daddy don’t have to scold her, her mother can’t hardly hold her She never gets any older, sweet little rock and roller
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I never sing out loud because I'm afraid people will go, 'Shut up!'
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The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.
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In sport, as in science, business, and diplomacy, as Scots we understand that we benefit from the deep and diverse partnerships that make up the United Kingdom.
