Alan Alda Quotes
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line - I won't put anything out until it's completely ready. You want to keep it special and unique for the customer.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.
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I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
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I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.
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I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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I'm an iPod person.
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When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
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I was very unique as a child, dressed a certain way, acted a certain way, didn't fit in with everybody. So I immediately got picked on, especially around the age of 12 and 13, when you start going to junior high and start mingling with the older kids. To counteract that, strictly for self-defense, I wanted to get bigger.
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I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
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I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.
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I think transcending our cultures is going to be extraordinarily necessary for our survival. I don't think we can carry our cultures through the keyhole of the stretch of the next millennium
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Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
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No one can replace a unique person like Peter.
