Douglas Alexander Quotes

Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see.

Douglas Alexander

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You can't just become complacent or lazy, or then the decline happens.

Jinder Mahal

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Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.

Joan Hickson

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I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

Jennifer Egan

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The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable.

Andrei Tarkovsky

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The way that Lucasfilm used ILM was George never restricted his thinking to things that he knew could be executed with the tools at the time. He would write what he thought would be cool and what he wanted from a storytelling standpoint with the assumption that, 'Well, they'll figure it out!'

John Knoll

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Weirdly enough - if I make enough money one day - I want to open a board game bar.

Ross Butler

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New York is just as provincial as anyone else.

Molly Ivins

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It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura

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Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way - through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has so successfully done before, we will employ our own time-tested techniques to bring them to justice to account for their crimes.

Loretta Lynch

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I see myself in a Cleveland Browns uniform and a return for Josh Gordon. Hopefully this time, the biggest and the best I've ever been. Really looking forward to giving the people what they deserve, not letting anyone down, myself included. And exceeding their expectations.

Josh Gordon

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I'm not going to have anyone tell me what I can do promoting my product.

Diamond Dallas Page

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I've never read 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,' but his later works are about whether God is real.

Brian Fallon

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