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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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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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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I haven't grown since I was 13, and every girl cast opposite me isn't allowed to wear heels on camera, for fear that I would look minuscule. In all of the casting calls for my best friends on every project, it says in big, bold, red letters: 'Please no high heels.' It's a little embarrassing.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.
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Kinchit nahin bhaybhit main, Kartavya path par jo bhi mile, Yeh bhi sahi woh bhi sahiEnglish translation:I am not afraid of defeat and victory, whatever comes my way of duty, I will accept it, because this is true and that is true.
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Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.
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I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
