Alan Arkin Quotes

I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was... And acting, that I've been doing since I was 5.

Alan Arkin

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• I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Thought
  • Sexy
  • Aggressive

• Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • Band
  • Timeless

• Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Society
  • Government

• General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Nature
  • Powerful
  • Well

• The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Future
  • Risk
  • Holocaust

• I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • College
  • Risk

• Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Men
  • Black

• I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Study
  • Crime
  • Loneliness

• I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • May
  • Hope
  • Wish

• I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Man
  • Faith
  • Trust

• I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Conscious

• At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Man
  • Dog
  • Lion

• Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • Now
  • Last

• We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • May
  • Greatest
  • Corruption

• I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Look

• The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• I really believe in the power of music.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Power

• Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Sea
  • Calm
  • Ship

• My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

  

  Lecrae
  • Live
  • Faith
  • Title

• Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Work
  • Achievement
  • Fame

• I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11.

  

  Amity Gaige
  • She
  • Mother
  • Army

• The problem is that in order to publish a book in mainland China, you have to agree to be subject to censorship. That's the nature of the system. I don't challenge that system on its face. It's their system. But as an author, I have a choice to make whether I'll participate or I won't.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Problem
  • Challenge
  • Author

• I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was... And acting, that I've been doing since I was 5.

  

  Alan Arkin