Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.
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I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.
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If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
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I think as more people use the phones to access the Internet, they have a lot less patience for trying to find things on the search engines. That is because you need to figure a lot of things out for search to work.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind.
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I'm honored when young people say they've gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally. I walk around with a hat on. People don't know it's me.
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I think that in free societies, and we're constantly talking about living in free societies, aren't we, in contradiction with unhappy people who live in non-free societies, that the benefit, the dividend of living in a free society is that you say what you think.
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends too soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.
