Douglas Alexander Quotes

Stories come and go. The challenge is to frame the questions that voters will be asking on polling day, such as who has avoided a global depression and worked here to deliver jobs.

Douglas Alexander

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I have people coming to me every day, coming to my office, with life-threatening diseases - life-threatening diseases - and they were dropped from their health care because of the Affordable Care Act.

Michael Grimm

HealthDayPeopleMeCareEvery Day

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'

John Sayles

HopePoliticsPeopleSayingAmerican

In terms of negotiating a career - I've always grown up being an insider and an outsider to different worlds, across different classes and cultures, so I have always naturally liked making films or music that puts things in unexpected places.

Riz Ahmed

MusicUnexpectedCareerPlacesUp

I like to hang out with my friends, go to the theatre, watch DVDs, read, play with my niece.

Michelle Ryan

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The U.N. was created for people.

Miroslav Lajcak

PeopleCreated

Just like everyone else, I'm not perfect; I go through challenges as well.

Jazz Jennings

ChallengesNot PerfectPerfectGo

Among my favorite half-dozen topics is the field of Victorian female explorers, the intrepid women who packed up their parasols and petticoats and roamed the world in search of adventure. Some were scientists, some artists, some unabashed curiosity-seekers who simply went out to see what they could see.

Deanna Raybourn

WomenAdventureWorldSearchSeeUp

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

Chico Hamilton

MusicHellYouMeanThroughProtest

People complain when ads aren't relevant, and they complain when ads are too relevant.

Susan Wojcicki

PeopleComplainRelevantAdsToo

Once you have somebody that is telling you, 'We are interpreting God for you,' it seems like you either agree or you don't. You either say, like Martin Luther, 'I'm going to have a direct relationship with the word of God,' or I'm going to go through a conduit of God on Earth,' which would be the Pope.

Penn Jillette

GodRelationshipYouEarthGoSay

If you want to write from life, you can't really write a story. People are always changing, and I think if we didn't look the same day-to-day, and our self weren't always in our body, would we even be the same? The continuity is in our bodies.

Sheila Heti

LifePeopleStoryThinkSelfLook

I am very confident that in 2008, people's votes will count. I don't think they did in 2004. I think in 2008, they will.

Sherrod Brown

I AmPeopleThinkConfidentWill

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