Alan Alda Quotes
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I really like Neutrogena for skin care and CoverGirl makeup. I can't stand heavy makeup. I feel like my skin can't breathe, and CoverGirl is really light.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.
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I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.
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The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
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Trends don't interest me.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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I think that casting is probably the most important thing in television production.
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The presumption that an extant mode is efficient if the expected net gain is negative can nevertheless be rebutted by showing that the obstacles to implementing an otherwise superior feasible alternative are 'unfair.'
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To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.
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If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.
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You'd better take that wine back. It's a little off.
