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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The main misfortune, the root of all evil to come, was loss of the confidence in the value of one's own opinion. People imagined that it was out of date of follow their own moral sense, that they must all sing in chorus, and live by other people's notions, notions that were crammed down everybody's throat.
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.
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“She thought about how this summer was small. On the ground, it felt huge, but really, it was just a moment in a series of moments.”
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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.
