Alan Alda Quotes
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice people that were trying to do things in life that were constructive, and that's what I gravitated to instead of what I saw and what I was in.
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Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.
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I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.
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Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.
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It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
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McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation.
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A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah.
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The thin-lipped armorer, Hephaestos, hobbled away, Thetis of the shining breasts Cried out in dismay At what the god had wrought To please her son, the strong Iron-hearted man-slaying Achilles Who would not live long.
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My personal feeling is that ultra-high frame rates and ultra-vivid giant screen movies can be like a window onto reality. And if you recognize it as such, you can write your screenplay, direct your movie, edit it, and present it as a live experience - not like a movie.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
