Douglas Alexander Quotes
I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I've always been driven, and I like the creative aspect of figuring things out.
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I've been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-'70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in '77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.
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The reality is institutions that invest in high growth have offices globally and talk across offices.
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To be honest, I was kind of a shy kid growing up.
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You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant.
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I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning and think that my mission is to end poverty.
