Alex Salmond Quotes
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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I am satisfied it has strengthened my hand tremendously. Nobody but a fool would disregard the kind of result we witnessed today.
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The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
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Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.
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At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?' Not what their appearance is.
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It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.
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I thought I had a huge crush on a young Canadian photographer who was commissioned to go down to Australia to do a series, so I tried to figure out a way to follow him without getting in trouble with my parents, and that was by auditioning for their National Institute.
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I was in band that played mostly covers for a while, and the bands that we would cover were, like, the alternative rock bands of that day: we did a Jane's Addiction song and a Faith No More song. All the kind of alternative radio of that time, the late '80s, basically.
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Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
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I am the Love that dare not speak its name.
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You got to use what you got to get just what you want.
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Man can change his conditions by changing his words.
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The rule I have when choosing films is the excitement factor, I need to feel excited about the story and whatever message the film has - only then do I sign on the dotted line.
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In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.
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The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such.
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The Libor system is structurally flawed. It is a major problem for our financial system and for the confidence in the financial system. We need to address it.
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In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.
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Where was I?""A different island," said old Tallow. Her voice was stern, but there was an ache in her look that Omakayas had never before seen. "An island called Spirit Island where everyone but you died of the itching sickness- you were the toughest one, the littlest one, and you survived them all.""You were sent here so you could save the others," she said. "Because you'd had the sickness, you were strong enough to nurse them through it. They did a good thing when they took you in, and you saved them for their good act. Now the circle that began when I found you is complete.
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All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.
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Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.
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A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.
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The scars remain and the wounds are still deep.
