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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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When I played Imunique on 'Love That Girl,' that was on the other side of comedy - loud and out there.
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I'm not gay.
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And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.
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For most of her existence, Molly had not shied from a truth that most people understood but diligently suppressed: that every moment of every day, depending on the faith we embrace, each of us continues to live either by the merciful sufferance of God or at the whim of blind chance and indifferent nature.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
