Alan Alda Quotes
The creative is the place where no one else have ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
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I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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I can always go back to education.
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I was very much a tomboy. I just couldn't do the pink ballet tutus.
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Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.
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I listen to music for consolation and comfort. I want my songs to comfort people who listen to it, and I myself want to be a comforting figure to my fans. I think ‘youth’ is not limited to people in their twenties. People in their sixties can be youthful too. I want people of all ages to sympathize with the youthful songs in my album and feel comforted.
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The creative is the place where no one else have ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
