Alan Alda Quotes

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alan Alda

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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.

M. J. Rose
- People
- Up
- Book
I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

Jackie Cooper
- Good
- Work
- Hope
When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Bad
- Childhood
- Memories
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Walt Whitman
- Great
- You
- Learning
I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.

Gary Carr
- Life
- World
- Great
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

Carl Sandburg
- Work
- Live
- Die