Alexander Downer Quotes
I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I created 'Rookie' because I read a lot of websites that I thought were cool and interesting, but they weren't for teens, and I wanted us to have something that could be ours.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
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People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all.
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It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.
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I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
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Fools follow rules when the set commands you.
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I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it's to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but I am aware of my Scottish ancestry. It's there all right, but it would be pushing it to label me a Scottish painter. Or, indeed, an anywhere painter.
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I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.
