Alan Alda Quotes
I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is 'evil,' which it undoubtedly is, and that 'evildoers' are responsible for it, which doubtless they are. But beyond these justifiable condemnations, there is a historical void.
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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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You don't want me to sing. I could do a really bad karaoke scene, if I had to, but I'd probably choose to rap.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
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In middle school, I had a teacher who regularly reminded students of the Monday night Young Life meetings he sponsored; on Tuesdays, he'd spend the first few minutes of class palling around with the chosen ones about all the fun and fellowship they'd experienced together.
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We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.
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I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.
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I have been told that Your Excellency follows the teachings of Jesus (PBUH)
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I am reverential to great stars. I don't want sexual congress with them. The writer in me reveres the artist in them.
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I don't hate redheads! The millionaire men - wealthy men - never pick them. Every time I offer them they say no. I could say the most gorgeous redhead in the world and they'll say no, they don't want it. Now if you ask an Irish guy in Ireland, he says 'yes,' because that's indigenous to that country.
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It's critical to be able to see things in other people that sometimes they don't see in themselves.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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about trampolines
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I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.
