Alex Salmond Quotes
You are able to have disagreements as long as you’re straight talking – you say honestly what can and can’t be done.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'
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It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
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In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
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I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every morning I saw my father get up and go to a job that he didn't really like. They came to France for the same reasons all immigrants move to another country - so their kids could have a better way of life.
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A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
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You shoulda left the other day You let me beg for you to stay
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The secret of living a full life is to be fully engaged, moment to moment, to have something in your life that engages you so that there's nothing missing.
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He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.
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There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get to work with before he passed away, but Richard Avedon was utterly genius and creatively brilliant.
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Not to sound cliché or anything, but with the downtime that I have and the possible platform that my work could give me, I'd like to figure out a way to give back and make a difference, you know?
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
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I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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Senator [Bob] Corker has been, first of all, discreet and loyal. He has not signaled the internal mechanisms. He`s been pretty honestly saying, I wasn`t a real insider in the campaign.
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I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it.
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You are able to have disagreements as long as you’re straight talking – you say honestly what can and can’t be done.
