Alan Alda Quotes
I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
Quotes to Explore
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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We need to be very well aware of the fact that China and Russia are using technology to attack us, just as ISIS is using technology to recruit those who would murder American citizens.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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Beijing cannot sit by and let her North Korean ally be bombed, nor can it allow U.S. and South Korean forces to defeat the North, bring down the regime, and unite the peninsula, with U.S. and South Korean soldiers sitting on the Yalu, as they did in 1950 before Mao ordered his Chinese army into Korea.
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There is no true poetry unconcious inspiration.
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The freedom of the individual and his willingness to follow real leadership are at the core of America’s strength.
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I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
