Douglas Alexander Quotes

Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic.

Douglas Alexander

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• What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Night
  • Poverty
  • Unemployment

• I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins; I would love to work with Meryl Streep; I would love to work with DeNiro; I would love to work with Johnny Depp; I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow... I think she's amazing.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Work
  • Think
  • Amazing

• The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Up
  • Health
  • Fitness

• The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • She
  • Woman
  • Husband

• I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Fans

• For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Expression
  • Individuality

• Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Happy
  • Football
  • Escape

• I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Alone

• And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

  

  Haniel Long
  • Go
  • Through
  • U.S.

• When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life

• It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

• Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Believe

• The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Done
  • Interesting

• I am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm going to write about first... it just sort of comes out like word vomit.

  

  Charli XCX

• I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Time
  • Hope

• When I got to the stage, it was like a release, you know what I mean? Because it was like, 'Oh, people like me. People like me. They're listening to what I have to say. They're not judging me on how I look; they're judging me on what I'm saying.' So to me, that's what's worth it, and that's what comedians have.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • People
  • Listening
  • Judging

• I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.

  

  Clare Balding
  • Money
  • Interesting

• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Morals

• In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music.

  

  Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
  • Up
  • Music
  • Giving

• I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Intimacy
  • Miss
  • Ministry

• If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

  

  Friedrich August von Hayek
  • Would
  • Understood
  • Socialists

• The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

  

  Tim Pawlenty
  • Government
  • Faster

• Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic.

  

  Douglas Alexander