Douglas Alexander quote: "Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders."

If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual ...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the In...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify ...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, ...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

I do think our challenge is to balance credibility and a clear message about how we would reduce the...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

What people want is a sense of a better future to come.
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

This summit is a huge test for Russia.
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

The EU-Iran human rights dialogue enables the European Union to work to improve the human rights sit...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

The resolution passed by the IAEA board of governors on 24 September makes clear the depth of intern...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

It would be better if we were able to get a deal, but it had to be the right deal. It needs to be th...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

Turkey and Croatia are naturally separated topics, conditions were given for both of them, ... The c...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

It appears the Scottish people have rejected separatism this evening. There was a fundamental choice...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

The Conservative Party agenda is now renegotiation on the route to withdrawal from Europe, by contra...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

We do not know who planted the explosive device and cannot speculate at this time,
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

Newspapers can make their own judgment in terms of who they support in a general election. Our respo...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Tha...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simp...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

What matters in any campaign is that you have a strategic core that makes the judgements, decides th...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Fi...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

As shadow foreign secretary, I have been as clear in my support for the government when it does some...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

Of course we need to show we are a genuine alternative to an unpopular, Conservative-led government....
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generati...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

David Cameron wants people to believe that his isolation in Europe is a result of Britain being outn...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

Of course the decision to commit British forces in Iraq was, for many MPs, a wrenching choice. Howev...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send ...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

There's no doubt that what has emerged in the years after 9/11, unlike the situation in Britain,...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope.
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a the...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

I don't get up in the morning and think my mission is to end Britain. I do get up in the morning...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talkin...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

The Olympics is a time primarily for sport and celebration, but diplomacy does not stop at the door ...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

The Commonwealth is a vital and positive partnership between countries striving to develop trade rel...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

One of the big weaknesses of the Conservative Party is not just their ignorance of and lack of effec...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

In sport, as in science, business, and diplomacy, as Scots we understand that we benefit from the de...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the ...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality,...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride abo...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER

There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are i...
ALEXANDER DOUGLAS-HOME

Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...
ALEXANDER

On the way to your success and realisation of the dreams you have to do one tiny thing - start do it...
ALEXANDER

As more you're busy and overwhelmed as more free and leisure time you have.
ALEXANDER

Occasionally, I don't invent something and I don't lie, sometimes there're moments when I just don't...
ALEXANDER

I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and elo...
ALEXANDER

Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless r...
ALEXANDER

Live with the current day, otherwise someday you'll wake up and realise that all remarkable and gorg...
ALEXANDER

Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that...
ALEXANDER

As more busier and overwhelmed you're, as more free time you have.
ALEXANDER

Facing the obstacle don't fall in depression, just reverse the problem and take a glance at it at an...
ALEXANDER

Everything what you do has sense. If you don't like the world around you can draw your own, compose ...
ALEXANDER

I'm enormously afraid of one inevitable and trivial thing - that one day I'll simply cease to exist.
ALEXANDER

Do you know why responsible people do hide price of extremely expensive things? People don't want to...
ALEXANDER

While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the gro...
TOMMY DOUGLAS

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all o...
TOMMY DOUGLAS

Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crust...
TOM DOUGLAS

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like thi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

God only knows what else is on the web about me.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had the...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and d...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I'm a huge poster collector.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, an...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very e...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly bec...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

I come from a pretty strange family.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you c...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there ...
GABBY DOUGLAS

Smile, it's free therapy.
DOUGLAS HORTON

I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.
DOUGLAS LEONE

Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.
TOM DOUGLAS

The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we t...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF

My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've p...
TOM DOUGLAS

Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.
DOUGLAS BOOTH

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putti...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important o...
STEPHEN DOUGLAS

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and wh...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary ...
DOUGLAS REED

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
NORMAN DOUGLAS

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
NORMAN DOUGLAS

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
NORMAN DOUGLAS

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
NORMAN DOUGLAS

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart o...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one....
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', thei...
DOUGLAS KIRKLAND

When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bow...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
DOUGLAS YATES

The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other.
DOUGLAS BOOTH

Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not j...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hyster...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an ...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF

When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND

No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to ter...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF

Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do...
DOUGLAS CONANT

It's very important that we keep these special, wild places. It defines the United States. Imagi...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

Who doesn't love digging into a plate of crab cakes or going after a chilled cracked crab with c...
TOM DOUGLAS

I got my feet wet in a couple of shows. I did a cameo on my favorite show, 'The Vampire Diaries....
GABBY DOUGLAS

When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had lost half its market value in the pri...
DOUGLAS CONANT

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buy...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND

When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float th...
TOM DOUGLAS

I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But i...
KYAN DOUGLAS

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
GABBY DOUGLAS

It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything...
GABBY DOUGLAS

I would love to be a role model.
GABBY DOUGLAS

I wear makeup pretty much every day. For training, I usually do a lighter base, a lighter blush and ...
GABBY DOUGLAS

My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a b...
GABBY DOUGLAS

You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.
GABBY DOUGLAS

I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do tha...
GABBY DOUGLAS

Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
GABBY DOUGLAS

By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the ri...
GABBY DOUGLAS

Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrif...
GABBY DOUGLAS

I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and ...
GABBY DOUGLAS

You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and b...
GABBY DOUGLAS

Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware compan...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to g...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
JAMES DOUGLAS

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consent...
NORMAN DOUGLAS

I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she j...
GABBY DOUGLAS

The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of yo...
TOM DOUGLAS

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are...
MARY DOUGLAS

My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to...
KIRK DOUGLAS

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur All great...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boas...
DOUGLAS DUNN

Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into somet...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been wid...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together...
DOUGLAS JERROLD

Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
DOUGLAS JERROLD

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
DOUGLAS JERROLD

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely wh...
DOUGLAS JERROLD

Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation.
DOUGLAS JERROLD

I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for...
DOUGLAS JERROLD

A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
DOUGLAS JERROLD

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
DOUGLAS JERROLD

Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece...
DOUGLAS WILDER

It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can ...
TOM DOUGLAS

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

Time is bunk.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'tr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictu...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
DOUGLAS ADAMS

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that w...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they freq...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your pe...
TOM DOUGLAS

I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mea...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
DOUGLAS COUPLAND

Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish u...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND

Six silent people in a room got me to thinking about the voice we hear in our heads when we read, th...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND

Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.
DOUGLAS TRUMBULL

To shuck oysters, you'll need an oyster knife, a handy tool with a sturdy handle and a short, ri...
TOM DOUGLAS

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the wa...
DOUGLAS WILDER

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
DOUGLAS ADAMS

The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF

Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.
DOUGLAS HURD

Lured by smooth roads onto a new turnpike, he read with surprise the rules he was handed, don't stop...
DOUGLAS WOOLF

Twentyone is too old to go anywhere alone, you know that. I want to go with someone. I don't mean as...
DOUGLAS WOOLF

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tel...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

Computers don't kill books; people do.
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF

I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to ...
SCOTT DOUGLAS

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
DOUGLAS ADAMS

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins...
DOUGLAS ADAMS

Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders.

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Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders.

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