Alex Salmond Quotes
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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I don't believe in the 100 crore club.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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Yes, I help my kids with their homework. But I also get bored doing it. I will sit and listen to my children pontificate and discuss their ideas till the day is long because it warms my heart, but I really don't want to do math!
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I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.
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The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.
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I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don't care who they are. I don't quantify people by celebrity.
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It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.
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I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.
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Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.
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When you are a free agent like I was, it definitely makes a big difference when you know there's stability at the quarterback position.
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We originally proposed to build 60 to 80 rooms.
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The greatest need we have is not to do things, but to believe things.
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I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.
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A liberation struggle is like a struggle against dirt. No matter what type of bath you takein three weeks you'll smell like you've never seen a bathtub. What we don't understand about a liberation struggle is you never win it, any more than you "win" clean dishes. As soon as you eat on them, the dishes are dirty again.
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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
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Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.
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In many parts of the country, water is a precious resource which we can no longer simply take for granted.
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To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
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Let us achieve great things for those who granted us the privilege to serve.
