Alan Alda Quotes
My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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In high school ethics, they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much 'if it happens, it happens.'
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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
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My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.
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We try to make films for people [that are] the films that we'd like to see. They're not easy to get made. They're hard to get made. You have to keep the budget low to get them made. But at the end of the day, I don't really worry about competition, because I don't really think of it that way. I don't feel like I'm in a race with anybody.
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My father sang well, and he was a handsome man. When he walked down the street, people sometimes mistook him for Cary Grant and asked for his autograph.