Alan Alda Quotes
If two scientists are giving their papers at a symposium, and one of them is just naturally better at talking to the public or talking to a group of people, that scientist is liable to get more attention - in fact, I'm told that they do get more attention - than the one who's a little more stiff about it. Well, that's not good for science.
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.
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Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do medicine. I used to go to drama classes when I was younger, and she would always take me. But when I got to an age when I decided it was what I wanted to do, when she accepted it, she had actually been the most supportive person ever.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.
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People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.
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I was the one who was always calling people.
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I love 'Battles,' and I love what it's doing for people.
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It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
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You show up at high school, there's all these kids you don't know, and you're terrified that people will have some kind of wrong or unpleasant impression of you. You just don't want anything to ruin your public persona, because you actually have a public persona in high school.
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Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
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I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.
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To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.
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If two scientists are giving their papers at a symposium, and one of them is just naturally better at talking to the public or talking to a group of people, that scientist is liable to get more attention - in fact, I'm told that they do get more attention - than the one who's a little more stiff about it. Well, that's not good for science.
