Alan Alda Quotes
The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.
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Western Europeans are not having any babies.
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Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
