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.Alan Alda
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.
Samantha Power -
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.
Kanye West -
I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
Taylor Kinney -
Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
Cara Delevingne -
I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
Tamara Mellon -
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.
Carly Fiorina
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
Florence King -
As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
Taiye Selasi -
Bad ballplayers make good managers.
Earl Weaver -
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.
Naveen Jain -
The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
Patricia Schroeder -
Focus on remedies, not faults.
Jack Nicklaus
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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.
Pankaj Mishra -
Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
Felix Dennis -
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin -
Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
Ozwald Boateng -
I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
Karl Marlantes -
I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
Larry Brown
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
Saffron Burrows -
I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.
P. J. O'Rourke -
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Italy has no colonial past in Iran.
Paolo Gentiloni -
If you want to grow up and do what I do for a living - be an actress - my advice to you is read as much as you can.
Mary Steenburgen -
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.
Alan Alda