Alan Alda Quotes
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If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
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Over half of the traffic that flows over our networks is coming from video. As you think about a business that is going to be video centric and video focused, you want to have scale on the video programming side to be able to take advantage of this.
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Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
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The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.
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The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space travel and the Edwardian period.
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I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
