Alan Alda Quotes
I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
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Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
