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.

Alex Salmond

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• Honestly
• Disagreements

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• Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Truth
  • Hand
  • Grip

• 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.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Proud
  • Grace
  • Keep

• 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.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Friends
  • History

• 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.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Family
  • Girl

• It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Always
  • Bring
  • Reform

• The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Place
  • Achieve
  • Resolution

• 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.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Doing
  • Movies
  • Dumb

• In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

  

  Barry Watson
  • Why
  • Character
  • You

• My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • She
  • Small
  • Grandmother

• 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.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Action

• You shoulda left the other day You let me beg for you to stay

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Left
  • Breakup
  • Let Me

• 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.

  

  Karen Allen
  • World
  • Experience
  • Spiritual

• 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.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Secret

• He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World
  • She
  • Eyes

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Work
  • Fashion

• 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?

  

  Luke Grimes
  • Work
  • Differences
  • Figures

• An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Real
  • Friendship
  • Sure

• There are one or two things, which you can directly do in very critical times. But otherwise, this indirect influence that you can exercise on the affairs of the State is the most important role he can play. And, he can play it successfully only if he is, his ideas and his nature of functioning are seen by the public in tune with their standards. The President has to be a citizen and there must be some equation between the people and the President, and if some advice or something is to be given to the executive, it would be received with grace, it would be sometimes accepted, if it is known that the public opinion is on the side of the kind of advice the President is giving. Otherwise, he cannot exercise much influence.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Exercise
  • Influence
  • States

• I didn't think about it at the time, but of course now I realize that my father's insistence that we Jews must be better was based on our country's firm belief that we were not as good.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Good
  • Father
  • Realize

• As long as I ride motorcycles, which God willing is another 50 years, I'll always have Alvarez in my heart. I'm hoping for 10 seasons of Sons of Anarchy.

  

  Emilio Rivera
  • Ride
  • My Heart
  • Sons of Anarchy

• I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

  

  Charles Barron
  • Black
  • Persons
  • Racism

• My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.

  

  Kató Lomb
  • Language
  • Persons
  • Process

• You are able to have disagreements as long as you’re straight talking – you say honestly what can and can’t be done.

  

  Alex Salmond
  • Talking
  • Honestly
  • Disagreements