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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In his book Stand Ye In Holy Places, President Harold B. Lee wrote that one is converted when his eyes see what he ought to see, his ears hear what he ought to hear and his heart understands what he ought to understand. "And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion," he wrote.
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I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.
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That studies have shown that more people are getting up earlier, they're getting their news earlier. They're getting less sleep, getting up at earlier hours.
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One of my fondest memories growing up in Rwanda was seeing everyone participating in community-building activities. This happened every Saturday at the end of month. People work together in cleaning streets, planting trees, and take care of each other by facilitating productive conversations and actions that are beneficial for the society.
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I would never become a size zero. I work out because I want to look good naked, simple as that.
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I love to watch how scientists' minds work.
