Douglas Alexander Quotes
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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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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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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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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My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.
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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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Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky And I must think a little of the past: When I was ten I told a stinking lie That got a black boy whipped...
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There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
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Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic.
