Alan Alda Quotes
What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.Alan Alda
Quotes to Explore
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
Sally Phillips -
I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
Sam Hunt -
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash -
It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
Pam Grier -
I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
Tate Donovan -
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
Park Shin-hye
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
Laura Wasser -
Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
Farnaz Fassihi -
I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
Eavan Boland -
After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
Hank Sauer -
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
Edna O'Brien -
Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
Zach Anner
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We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
Barbara De Angelis -
I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
Carl Paladino -
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
Fidel Castro -
I've always loved film more than theater.
Laura Dern -
The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
Yash Chopra -
The best part of owning a blog is the fact that you are in control. You can write about anything you want to write about. You can decide how your blog looks. You can decide who to target. You can decide how to monetize the blog. You have full control!
Fabrizio Moreira
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Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.
Drake -
Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.
Anthony Trollope -
Contrast is the dramatist's method.
Lord Dunsany -
My father was a lawyer.
Pat Robertson -
Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.
Ken Salazar -
What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.
Alan Alda