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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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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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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My brother is really, really slow.
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People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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I so respect Sundance. I'd been hearing about it for years.
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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.
