Alan Alda Quotes
No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'
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Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.
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I'm a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan?
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Abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of caring for children is knowing when it's not a good idea to bring them into the world.
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No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.
