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

• -vanity, like all social vices, craves for novelty ;

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• 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

• The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

  

  Bryant H. McGill

• I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • People
  • Real
  • Purpose

• Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been won in spite of the irrational beliefs of the Greek people; all in all, it was a triumph of reason in the face of unreason. Some knowledge of Greek superstitions is needed not only for a proper appreciation of that triumph but also for the justification of occasional failures, such as the many Platonic aberrations.

  

  George Sarton
  • Reason
  • Realizing
  • Appreciation

• I dress like a boy most of the time because I like what's comfortable, so sometimes when I have to wear dresses and makeup, it's kind of comedic.

  

  Analeigh Tipton
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Makeup

• Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic.

  

  Douglas Alexander