Alan Alda Quotes
… life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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I get particularly depressed by the way teenagers are portrayed in the media. They are massively underestimated. They are bright, intelligent people who are given less and less opportunity. They are an ignored generation.
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My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country
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The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.
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We are all just cogs in a machine, doing what we were always meant to do, with no actual volition.
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There is just one exception to the FCC's no-throttling rule - if a company can prove that throttling is 'reasonable network management.'
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… life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.
