Alan Alda Quotes

Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.

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• Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Band
  • Involved
  • Gym Class

• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

  

  Wayne Allard
  • Country
  • Business
  • Growth

• I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Work
  • Walk
  • Work Hard

• If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • End
  • Treat

• I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Sometimes
  • Saying
  • Silent

• A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Good
  • Man
  • Advice

• There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Way
  • Competition
  • Result

• I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Training

• The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Remember
  • Relationship
  • Teacher

• The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.

  

  K. Flay
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Kind

• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • English
  • Escape
  • Songwriter

• England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Power
  • America
  • True

• I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • People
  • Good
  • Learn

• Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • You
  • Sleep

• Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.

  

  Kevin James
  • Fighting
  • Firsts
  • Saws

• Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

  

  John Keegan
  • Done
  • Courage
  • Loyalty

• A grandparent can be simply affirming. A grandparent has been there, done that child-raising stuff, and has the wisdom of experience. And so in some ways, they're free to love without the anxiety of being the actual parents. They're free to give.

  

  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Parents

• I collect a lot of data. We all do.

  

  Peter Diamandis

• Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that happened this day that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life. If you can learn to focus on what you have, you will always see that the universe is abundant; you will have more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never have enough.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Night
  • Change

• Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Work
  • Experience