Alan Alda Quotes

For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff. One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn't go back.

Alan Alda

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• My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Good
  • Peace

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Different
  • First
  • Elected

• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

  

  Edmund White
  • Success
  • Me
  • Boy

• Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

  

  Mahavira
  • Control
  • Practice
  • Start

• My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Dad
  • Son
  • Sad

• One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Love Stories

• For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Looking
  • Blame

• When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Up
  • Change
  • Day

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Book
  • Hope

• My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Age
  • Imagination
  • Optimism

• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Authority

• I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Reading

• It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Angel

• I always feel that it's great when you can be happy when you're by yourself. That's not a bad thing.

  

  Gene Pitney
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Happy

• Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough.

  

  James Geary
  • Small
  • Food

• Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • God
  • Live
  • Earth

• For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff. One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn't go back.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Small
  • Heaven
  • Forever