Douglas Alexander Quotes

When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.

Douglas Alexander

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Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

John M. Ford

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The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times.

Ann Turner

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Women are so - maybe this is just a male perspective, but for my money, they're so connected to life in a way that men aren't. They're able to give birth, have children, and it's literally a part of them. They perhaps have a stronger capacity for caring than males.

Jeff Bridges

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Profit, wealth creation, competition - these are not dirty words but the lifeblood of a dynamic economy.

Ana Patricia Botin

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People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world.

Spike Lee

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Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Rita Coolidge

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Motivations are too tangled and complex.

Russell Banks

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I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

Mitt Romney

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I don't know what happens with other players or what is in their heads, but for me - just win.

David Silva

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You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents.

Cory Booker

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I think a lot of times there is a tendency in Washington to make rules because of something that was adverse or fraud or something like that. And we make a lot of rules and end up hurting a lot of innocent people that are trying to start up their companies.

Brad Wenstrup

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