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.Alan Alda
Quotes to Explore
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
Walter Gilbert -
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 -
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
Sammi Hanratty -
Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
Wayne Rooney -
Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
Edmund Phelps -
I am a very selfish person.
Lara Flynn Boyle
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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.
Pamela Stephenson -
My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
Karin Slaughter -
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 -
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Wallace Stevens -
To read too many books is harmful.
Mao Zedong -
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
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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.
Edgard Varese -
There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
Calvin Klein -
We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
Tanya Tucker -
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 -
I have only one counsel for you - be master.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us.
Vance Havner
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The words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' are literally the same - the flavor is the same, the educational level is the same. But you just know when to use maybe and when to use perhaps. I think it's because of this: You get to know the tastes or musical tastes of words themselves, and this informs your choice, whether you use them or not.
David Mitchell -
I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.
Og Mandino -
He's just a freshman and we have a lot of depth this year. I think there's such an adjustment for freshmen from a strength and physical standpoint. He's doing a good job with that. He's a complete player. He just has to continue to improve and get himself used to this level.
Tony Bennett -
When I meet someone, I look at their eyes and their smile and seek out the good first - it's easy to find when you're looking for it. You let a person shine with their own light and try to connect it to yours. As soon as I say hello, I go right to that light and I don't care who you are! I know we're all pieces of the same thing - I go for that common light because I know it's in all of us.
Dolly Parton -
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