Alan Alda Quotes
I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.
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Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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The good people look for challenges. When teaching becomes a prestigious profession, then you'll get good people.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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I do this system called TRX. It was developed by a Navy SEAL and is basically a simple cord that you can wrap around something anywhere, anytime, and you use your body weight as resistance. We installed one in our home gym, but you can also attach it to a tree. It's very easy to travel with.
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My favorite part of the experience of serving in Congress is knowing that my time and effort are spent for the greater good and for the betterment of our nation.
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I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.
