Alan Alda Quotes
I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.Alan Alda
Quotes to Explore
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
Forest Whitaker -
Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
Zooey Deschanel -
Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
Larry David -
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
Wayne Dyer -
The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
Jackie Earle Haley -
My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
Rachael Ray
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
Hale Irwin -
Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
Malcolm Wallop -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid -
I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
Laura Linney -
Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
Irwin Redlener -
Im not your biggest girly girl.
Maggie Siff
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke -
The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
Ramana Maharshi -
In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
Karen Kain -
US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
Daniel Barenboim
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
Elbert Hubbard -
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
The peace-loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of humane instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape through mere isolation or neutrality.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.
Derek Jarman -
Every state aspiring to be part of the free world, able to decide its own destiny, deserves its chance. They may, in a not too distant future, contribute to all of us in ways we cannot imagine today.
Kersti Kaljulaid -
I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.
Alan Alda