Alan Alda Quotes
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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I've never been a partier.
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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There's no regrets for me.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
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Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.
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Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.
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One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.
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The book I made it big with in the U.S. was my fourth book, 'Sanctum.' My novels sell really well both there and in Canada, so once a year I do a promotional tour, visiting a different city every two days, doing book readings and signings.
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That's the thing about musicians: The priority is to create something new that's never been before. And you put your life on the line every time that you play.
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I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
