Alan Alda Quotes
I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.Alan Alda
Quotes to Explore
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
Samantha Power -
There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
Rand Paul -
I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
Dan Scanlon -
Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
Cam Newton -
There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
Val McDermid
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov -
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
Olin Miller -
When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
Barbara Mandrell -
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Quintilian -
Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
Laetitia Casta -
I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
Karen Handel
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
Nadia Comaneci -
The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
G. Edward Griffin -
I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
Viggo Mortensen -
Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
Harriet Tubman -
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
Gail Porter
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You will find me standing up to my rack, as the people's faithful representative, and the public's most obedient, very humble servant.
Davy Crockett -
A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded. Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have exhumed, will march. You'll read them - or they'll march. Some of them livid and some of them fiery and some of them rotten.
Charles Fort -
If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
Orlando Bloom -
You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.
Padmasree Warrior -
I am someone who gets pretty worked up.
John McEnroe -
I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
Alan Alda