Alan Alda Quotes
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.
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What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of person I'm dealing with, and then forget I'm playing a father and just play a person who exemplifies all those things.
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Beijing is my favorite city in China.
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Computers can do better than ever what needn’t be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly. (p. 109)
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If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
