Douglas Alexander Quotes

The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.

Douglas Alexander

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We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.

John Battelle

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Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Joel Osteen

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I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

Matthew McConaughey

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Around '62 in Baltimore, all the girls had those big hairdos. And then suddenly, a few of the really hip ones started doing their hair straight. And people panicked. And it was called going 'Joe,' meaning Joe College. And people would say, 'I don't know. Should I be 'Joe'? I can't decide.'

John Waters

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I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

Solomon Ortiz

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I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

Tom Stoppard

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The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system.

Tom C. Clark

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It's good to see more young people playing instruments.

Ry Cooder

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I played ball at Miami. The Rock was with us.

Rohan Marley

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Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne made very good money from both 'Insidious' movies. Word travels fast, so as soon as you have a success and do what you say you're going to do in a contract and pay out that money, we had a lot more established actors come to us and say they want to work with us.

Jason Blum

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I'm one of three boys raised by a single mom in a military beach town in the South.

Jason Winston George

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Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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