Alan Alda Quotes
There's a vacancy now that no president can fill, no power on Earth can fill, ... Others will step in and fill in his shoes excellently. But no one can replace the unique presence that was Peter.
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I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
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The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.
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I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.
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My dad is one of my favorite human beings in the world. He's just a good person, and he could entertain a brick wall.
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There's a vacancy now that no president can fill, no power on Earth can fill, ... Others will step in and fill in his shoes excellently. But no one can replace the unique presence that was Peter.
