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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It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
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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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Everyone in this house and the houses next door knows when I'm in the sauna because I start singing, and I sing the blues when I'm in a really good mood. I have a really loud voice, you know.
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No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to dictate to me. He may censure me freely and without reserve; but he should remember that I am to act by my deliberation and not his. I ought to exercise my talents for the benefit of others; but that exercise must be the fruit of my own conviction; no man must attempt to press me into the service.
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What if life after death is all based within memory: you die, and you don't ascend on a bed of clouds to Jesus, but your brain has a terrain that it can use to propel itself further. It's more of a theoretical afterlife. If that's true, all of these theoretical afterlives of people could potentially interact or network. That space seems way more powerful and exciting than reality. This potential boundlessness is more of what god is to me.
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Karma is karma. Karma is in life. You do the wrong things, you get the wrong things out of it.
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I always say one of the great scenes from 'The Dirty Dozen' is where Jim Brown has to get grenades in the chimney.
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There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
