Alec Douglas-Home Quotes
"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
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No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.
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With 'Trainwreck,' because it wasn't live and we could do more takes, I feel like we broke a lot.
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When I earnt my first money, I went to a shop and bought jeans and a top. But then I wore them both for such a long time that finally my model agency said, 'You should buy something else!' I was saving the money because it was the first time I'd ever had any.
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The fights in future will not be over whether we ought to do something, but over how we ought to do it, and that's a reasonable debate.
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The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.
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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
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My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'
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When Nick At Nite is showing George Lopez, it's not doing what I'm thinking. But yes, I even write in the book about how MeTV went to Vince Gilligan and had him present an evening of his favorite television. So it can be done, but I think it can be done on a really large scale. The television of Dennis Potter, most of it hasn't been seen in this country. And that's just one example - it's a very obscure example. There's plenty of great TV out there. There's more crap - but there's great TV, too.
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Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
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I remember being, like, the age of 7 and just always being in control of something or someone, a baby somewhere. I had lots of cousins and brothers, and we were all taught that's how you are, you know. Things don't just run themselves; you have to make them run.
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For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace is.
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"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"
