Alan Arkin Quotes

For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly.

Alan Arkin

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• The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Celebrity

• I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • People
  • Want
  • Substance

• The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Good
  • Security

• An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Change
  • Marriage
  • Conflict

• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Ideas
  • Air
  • Breathing

• There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Country
  • Society
  • Religious

• Christians are being systematically exterminated.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Being
  • Christians

• I do comedy at a lot of colleges, and at the end of those shows, I take time to be a little more real with audiences. I try to inspire them to follow their dreams. When I was that age, it was incredible to hear stuff like that.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Time
  • Real
  • Age

• A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Men
  • Gentleman
  • Wolf

• I hope that I can continue to champion Dr. Paul's efforts to audit the Fed, protect state's rights, and getting our nation back on track.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Hope
  • Champion
  • I Can

• Opening up Atlantic and Arctic waters to drilling would lock the next generation into burning oil and gas in a way that only makes climate change that much worse, fueling ever rising seas, widening deserts, withering drought, blistering heat, raging storms, wildfires, floods and other hallmarks of climate chaos.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Change
  • Chaos

• One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memorize stuff from TV and perform it for my family. I was the little performer for most of my early life. So eventually, my mom caught onto that and thought I might want to get into acting.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Discoveries

• In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Energy
  • Natural
  • Changes

• I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Music
  • Home
  • Think

• It's a waste to not say anything with art.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Say
  • Waste

• When I held that statuette, I felt as if I had won a triumph not just for myself, but for every other woman who'd struggled to overcome the same sort of background.

  

  Halle Berry

• Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Live
  • Money
  • Job

• Music industry's a fragmented mess.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Music

• When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.

  

  Don Kardong
  • World
  • School
  • War

• Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

  

  Austin O'Malley

• [Ho Chi Minh] was always conscious that conditions in China and Vietnam were not always the same. He "kowtowed" to the Chinese - as he had to the Soviet Union - in order to receive their assistance, but he quietly worked to limit those forms of influence of which he did not approve (such as the harsh forms of land reform and the Great Leap Forward). Unfortunately, he was not always successful in fending off those forms of external advice that he didn't agree with.

  

  William J. Duiker
  • Successful
  • Chinese
  • Influence

• For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly.

  

  Alan Arkin