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'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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People of color grow up steeped in 'white' culture. The reverse is not true. And, no, listening to hip-hop on the way to work does not count as immersion.
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I wasn't into sports when I was younger. I was one of those kids who always tried to get a note from the doctor to say I had a cold so I didn't have to go play hockey in bad weather and be miserable.
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I still like doing stand-up now, but it's not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five other comedians. Now I usually just do it alone.
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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.
