Alan Alda Quotes
It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Actually, I'm not a gym rat. I'm not a gym person - I've never been. I've always been blessed to be thin. If I'm waiting for the kettle to boil, I'm doing 15 lunges.
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I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.
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How does one get bored of life?
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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It's always hard to break an independent picture from the pack.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?
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As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
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A constructive work is an embodiment of freedom itself, and is unconsciously perceived, even by those who are consciously against it. The desire to live is the strongest universal emotion, it springs from the depths of our unconscious sensibility – and the desire to give life is our most potent, constructive, conscious expression of this intuition.
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We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.
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You have to look at life, feel it, face it, and deal with it.
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There was something about the idea of Russia that I found very intriguing, and I think I had romanticized it a lot.
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I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.
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It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
