Alan Alda Quotes
You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
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Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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Bad as I wanna be. She aint bad, she a sad little wannabe.
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True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
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Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
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Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.
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You know what my earliest memories are? Going from one burlesque town to another. My father was in burlesque.
