Alan Alda Quotes
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in. If you challenge your own, you won't be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others. You'll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I would consider myself to be a moderate Republican, but more important than that, I believe our system of government is the best system there is... and while I have no illusions of changing the world, I've had good opportunities in life, and I believe there's an obligation to give something back by participating.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
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I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.
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The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.
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In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won't come in. If you challenge your own, you won't be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others. You'll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
