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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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.
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There was a period in my life when I was eating ramen non-stop. These days, less so. Once you have a kid, you end up eating a lot of foods with broccoli in them.
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If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.
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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.
