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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In fighting terror, you cannot let it interfere with the normal life of civilians in Israel.
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Magic Johnson is my biggest role model and I am his biggest fan. I actually met him recently and ran up to him and said, "man, I am your biggest fan, I'm P.K. Subban," and he said "I know who you are," and I was like, "what!" I was blown away just standing there talking to him and he was so nice.
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If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.
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One of the challenges was to make a cinematic movie about literally talking heads and to try to make it feel like something you want to see in a theater.
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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.
