Alan Alda Quotes
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
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Jesse Eisenberg, this little nebbishy guy, as Lex Luthor? For me, that's a genius move.
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Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
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Shimrod said: 'Once I thought of you as a child in a woman’s body.'Melancthe smiled a cool smile. 'And now?''The child seems to have wandered away.'
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Don’t wait for God to break you. You can choose to be broken or you can wait for God to crush your pride.
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We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them.
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It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
