Alec Douglas-Home Quotes
There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
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When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.
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My experience has been that wives know their husbands better than husbands know themselves.
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If socialism means that we live well, that there is equality and justice, and that we have no social and economic problems, then I welcome it.
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My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
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Real war was the thousands of Chinese refugees dying of cholera in the sealed stockades at Pootung, and the bloody heads of Communist soldiers mounted on pikes along the Bund. In a real war no one knew which side he was on, and there were no flags or commentators or winners. In a real war there were no enemies.
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There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
