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 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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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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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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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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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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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.
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If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.
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I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
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Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, To make my end too sudden.
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Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.
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Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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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.
