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Douglas Alexander Quotes

There's no doubt that what has emerged in the years after 9/11, unlike the situation in Britain, there were practices sanctioned in the U.S. that fall far below the standard of conduct that should have taken place. It is for the American system of government, in all of its branches, to address that. It is not for a British politician.

Douglas Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: british
Birth: October 26, 1967

Topics

Government American Doubt Fall Place

I'm very proud that I have learned German and Russian. Especially Russian, because of how difficult and beautiful it is and because of how much I struggled in the beginning to get my head around how it works.

Beautiful Beginning Proud Difficult

Young people go to concerts.

People Go Young Young People

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Friendship Friend Yourself Gift You

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.

Past American Something Banjo Our

I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.

Me Tolerance Year You Back Country

When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.

Weird Interesting You More Little

No dessert. I don't do dessert.

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

Life Night Down Manager First Opera

I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first.

Mary Steenburgen

Myself First Singer Writer Much

Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

Intention Frame Every Scene

I would like to be able to disappear whenever I do something dorky.

Something Disappear Would Able Like

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

Words Man Me Lost Others Here

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