Alan Alda Quotes
My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.
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I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.
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When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
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Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.
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I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
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Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
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My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'
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Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.
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There's no substitute for a great love who says, 'No matter what's wrong with you, you're welcome at this table.'
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My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
