Douglas Alexander Quotes

Of course we are looking to win support across every section of society. We win support by speaking to voters on the issues they most care about.

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• The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Small
  • Islam
  • Prophet

• Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Hand
  • Skills
  • Balancing

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Think
  • Player
  • Confidence

• I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Pain
  • Emotional
  • More

• Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Up
  • Business
  • Ideas

• You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • Page
  • Spark

• There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Up
  • Education
  • Human

• I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Listening

• I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Different
  • Always
  • Strange

• During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • Progress
  • End

• Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • American
  • History
  • Night

• I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Believe
  • Way

• She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

  

  O. Henry
  • Woman
  • Act
  • Invisible

• Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Violence
  • First
  • Refuge

• God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • God
  • Movie
  • Easy

• Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'

  

  Dayo Okeniyi
  • Mind
  • School
  • Design

• If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.

  

  Mary Badham
  • People
  • Up

• What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Dinner

• Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our home, she was an abundance of love, discipline, fun, affection, strength, tenderness, encouragement, understanding, inspiration, support.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • Home
  • Fun
  • Beautiful

• I'm no stranger to weight issues. I've had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Support
  • Issues
  • Times

• Of course we are looking to win support across every section of society. We win support by speaking to voters on the issues they most care about.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • Society
  • Support