Alec Douglas-Home Quotes
Now you can see me in the flesh, and I don't really look as I'm made to look on television.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
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I love painting so much that nothing else matters.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.
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As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.
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The bike that I've been riding is a Big Ripper. It' an SE Racing 29" bike that Famous [Stars & Straps] did a collaboration with and Travis [Barker] gave to me. So that's the bike that I cruise around on and bunny-hop on.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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Now you can see me in the flesh, and I don't really look as I'm made to look on television.
