Alan Alda Quotes
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
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Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
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It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.
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I am not a fan of books.
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It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.
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The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.
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A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.
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This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
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My dyslexia means I can't read for long periods or the letters start moving around on the page, giving me headaches.
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He knew there was something wrong, but there wasn't even a name for it in those days.
