Alan Alda Quotes

I hated high school. It was a prison.

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• I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Women
  • Respect
  • Present

• I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Me
  • Know
  • Loved

• I'm afraid to fail again.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Afraid
  • Fail
  • Again

• People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Funny
  • Shoes
  • Three

• Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Inside
  • Sides
  • Ridiculous

• Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Beauty

• I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Acting
  • New York
  • Rap

• New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • New
  • Dead
  • Research

• Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Career
  • Others
  • Ahead

• The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends and getting along well... But it is not something that you dwelled on. At least, I did not.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Thought

• Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Long
  • Value
  • Creation

• We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Children
  • Value
  • Environment

• If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Words

• I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Education
  • System
  • Repair

• I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • World
  • Hope

• I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Family
  • Hand
  • Laws

• Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.

  

  Jeff Garlin

• We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence.

  

  Garrison Wynn
  • Real
  • Justice
  • Headlines

• As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Live
  • Person
  • Philosophy

• A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very acquainted with Western culture. I had my first sewing machine when I was 9. I trained in fashion illustration when I was in school.

  

  Jason Wu
  • School
  • Experience
  • Culture

• A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.

  

  Alveda King
  • Children
  • Money
  • High

• I hated high school. It was a prison.

  

  Alan Alda
  • School
  • High
  • Person