Alan Alda Quotes
What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?Alan Alda
Quotes to Explore
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
A. B. Yehoshua -
When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
Valerie Simpson -
People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
Yingluck Shinawatra -
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Samuel Goldwyn -
Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.
Laura Dern
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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.
Frances Farmer -
I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
Natalie Massenet -
I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
Ovid -
Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
Nancy Pelosi -
In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
Dakota Fanning
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I want to play in as many theatres as possible, work with as many brilliant people as possible, but definitely do a new play.
Jack Lowden -
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
Irving Babbitt -
You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'
Harlan Coben -
Music is really something that makes people whole.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
Walter Cronkite -
Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
Karin Slaughter
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I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.
Rahul Dravid -
I don't care about being famous or having a lot of people go, "She's really good."
Laurie Anderson -
I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.
M. J. Rose -
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
Ted Koppel -
What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
Alan Alda