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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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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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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As actors, the magic is in the almost spiritual experience to really enter another world, to really enter a belief of being in another person's shoes and to really take on their experiences as someone else has written them and imagined them. It's kind of a sacred thing. It's a very spiritual experience. That in itself for me is the main thing that keeps me coming back to it. I like to travel, but for me, this is the greatest travel.
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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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They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative; they must bend tiny golden tentacles from his imagination to hers, that would take the place of the great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream.
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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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I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.
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There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.
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Frustration is not a work plan.
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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.
