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 was always a very quirky kid. I remember very early like fourth or fifth grade doing pratfalls to make my friends laugh, like falling on the ground on the playground and doing like bits and characters.
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The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.
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People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
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Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.
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I always try to manipulate the eye when I'm dressing myself or someone else. I don't have an hourglass figure, so I'm always trying to give the illusion that I have one; bringing the eye to the waistline by adding a belt or having a heavier print at the bottom or at the top helps define your shape.
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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.
