Alan Alda Quotes
I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.Alan Alda
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. Merwin -
Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
Pardis Sabeti -
Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
Idina Menzel -
I've always wanted to be Batman, but I don't naturally tend towards Batman. I tend towards Robin, but I did get to play Superman.
Yuri Lowenthal -
Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
Rafael Cruz
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo -
The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
Felipe VI of Spain -
My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
Karen Bender -
I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
Tara Reid -
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
Jack Keane
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
Adam McKay -
As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
Jacob Epstein -
Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
Damian Lewis -
The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.
Nancy Pelosi -
I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.
Vernon A. Walters -
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
Ed Rendell -
If you look at the pipeline of women moving up through the organisation, it's a matter of time and experience that they develop and performance that allows them to move into senior levels.
Marillyn Hewson -
The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that's incentive not to get down and dirty in the park anymore.
Jai Courtney -
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
J. William Fulbright -
I wanted to be a violin-maker like my dad, and then I wanted to be a doorman in my building.
Katherine Moennig -
I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
Alan Alda