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.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Today
  • Study
  • Try

• 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.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • World
  • Friends
  • Soul

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Best

• Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Time
  • Wealth
  • Tax

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Person
  • Selfish

• 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.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Mind
  • Guy
  • Myself

• My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Poetry
  • Enough
  • Smart

• Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Complicated

• 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.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Real
  • Power

• To read too many books is harmful.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Books
  • Read
  • Too

• 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.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Want
  • Stop

• 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.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • World
  • Dream
  • Thought

• There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Country
  • Fashion

• We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Live
  • Beautiful
  • Ranch

• 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.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Different
  • Family
  • Experience

• That's absolutely one of my most favorite movies, for so many reasons. I fought for that part; I wanted it badly. I took a lower salary, I did everything. Grace Kelly said, 'I'll never forgive you for playing that part. It was written for me. She Kelly got the prince Rainier, I got the part.'

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Movies
  • Playing
  • Prince

• I love to be able to tell a whole story in three-and-half minutes.

  

  Brett Young

• Hello? Three words: Benicio Del Toro, which, incidentally, is Spanish for 'he wants me.' It is just ridiculous how hot he is. I feel the same way about Benicio as I did when I was a kid lusting after David Cassidy.

  

  Caroline Rhea
  • Words
  • Spanish

• I love you, Katie. You might not be ready to say those words now, and maybe you'll never be able to say them, but that doesn't change how I feel about you.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Love
  • Words
  • Change

• I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Words
  • I Think
  • Pronounce