Alan Alda Quotes

What heartens me is to see '30 Rock' on the air. It makes me laugh from my gut, which I really like to do.

Alan Alda

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• All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Failure
  • Human
  • Actions

• I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Often
  • Wizard

• In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • World
  • Peace

• The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
  • Security
  • Very

• I have a Lamborghini Diablo. I have Mercedes 600, a 500, a 300, a 190. I have a Ferrari Testarossa, a Porsche speedster.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Ferrari
  • Mercedes
  • Porsche

• When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Team
  • Worry
  • Learn

• Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Hand
  • Sound
  • Stone

• The climate has been changing since there was a climate.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Been
  • Changing
  • Climate

• He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Year

• I am a Zionist.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Zionist

• Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Different
  • Will
  • Patterns

• These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Shadow
  • Over
  • Fast

• I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Mother
  • Friend
  • Happiness

• I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Think
  • You
  • Pain

• It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.

  

  Maggie Lawson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Years

• Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • You
  • Always
  • Once

• In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Constitution
  • Refuse
  • Strife

• There is a lot of talk in conservative circles about judicial modesty and deferring to the political branches. That view of judging often overlooks the important role that courts have in protecting people's rights. But if there was ever a time to defer, it is when Congress is protecting voting rights in the exact way the Constitution directs it to.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.

  

  Bill Parcells
  • Business
  • Football

• Here's what I'll say: some toys should be movies, and some toys should not be toys, and I'd like to believe we know the difference between those two things. The movies that work, work when there is a story there that you can take the toy out of, but when you put the toy in, it becomes an even more amazing experience for whatever reason.

  

  Alex Kurtzman
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Experience

• With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Music
  • See
  • Plant

• To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I'm not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Fall

• What heartens me is to see '30 Rock' on the air. It makes me laugh from my gut, which I really like to do.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Rock
  • Air
  • See