Douglas Alexander Quotes
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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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.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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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.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.
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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.
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And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
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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.
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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.
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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
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-vanity, like all social vices, craves for novelty ;
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Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday.
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The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.
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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.
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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.
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We're the only species on the planet that can't walk around the way we were created.
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I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body - the patterns and stripes and all of that.
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Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.
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Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.
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When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.
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Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic.
