Alan Alda Quotes
I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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I am a very selfish person.
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I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
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To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.
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I really don't think we've become a plutocracy, but I worry about the enormous influence that money has in a democracy such as ours.
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A lot of people think that kids say the darnedest things. But so would you if you had no education. You'd just be like, I am bike cheese. Because you wouldn't know what words were.
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If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.
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The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
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In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.
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I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.
