Alan Alda Quotes
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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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.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
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The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.
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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
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I've only written two novels, neither of them published, where the book is dominated by a male point of view; in the 'Onyx Court' series, it's split roughly 50/50.
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There is a built-in appreciation for music that is so much a part of the LDS culture. Utahns know that music can be divine and can touch a person's spirit in a unique way.
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Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.
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I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.
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I love to watch how scientists' minds work.
