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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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 would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
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It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
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Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons.
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I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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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.
