Alan Alda Quotes
I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
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'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
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Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.
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I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.
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I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.
