Adam Arkin Quotes
You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
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The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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I was a Girl Scout!
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I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
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To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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I am not gonna say that a guy's looks make him have to try harder in any way. I don't believe that at all. I think if he is funny, smart and cool, he's all set. Looks are not very important to me.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.