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Douglas Alexander Quotes

The scale of the ISIS threat is not yet matched by a clarity of approach for securing their defeat.

Douglas Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Clarity Defeat Threat Approach Scale

Sometimes, guys are in a slump, or you feel like you're not doing anything with the company, and I felt like that for years. But it can all change.

Change Feel Doing You Sometimes

When I went to my local grammar school, Lurgan College, girls were not encouraged to study science. My parents hit the roof and, along with other parents, demanded a curriculum change.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Change Science School Parents Study

I make no apology for wanting to make a profit - the more I make, the bigger percentage will go to charity. So most of the work I do now is motivated by that.

Work Charity Profit Go Now Apology

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Great Soul Poetry Should Amaze Does

I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole.

I Am People Humanity Ready Will

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.

Life War Horse Hands Back Own

Publishers send me a lot of first novels because my first novel was the defining novel of my career, and I guess a lot of people want my benediction or something.

People Me Career Want First Because

I fell in love with pastry because I felt I could be much more creative. It's precise, and you don't have to kill anything.

Love Creative You More Anything

I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.

Relationship Sorry Someone Mouth Bad

Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled garden of good taste are discreet and pastel-hued.

Good Flowers Garden Over Taste Up

I think some people watch 'Raging Bull,' or they watch 'The Piano Teacher,' and I think they're more, maybe, able to process an antihero in a dramatic context, where people more want comedy to take care of them. But that's not really taking care of people. That's just providing escape, which sometimes is necessary.

Teacher People Think Care Take Care

My work is really simple. They say 'action,' I do my stuff; they say, 'cut!'

Work Simple Action Say They Say Cut

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