Douglas Alexander Quotes
My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
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I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
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With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.
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With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
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The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
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My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.
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Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.
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Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
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Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.
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I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.
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Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter haw badly things are going at the moment.
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To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.
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In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as productive work and should have a large share in the national budget.
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My general approach to opposition is where the government is getting something right, we should say so. And where we disagree with them, we should say so, too.