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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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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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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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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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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Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.
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I really try my best not to get attached to a script, because I know what it takes: It takes you away from your family and what you like to do.
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
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O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
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I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life. Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.
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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.
