Alan Arkin Quotes
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.
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I try to win every tournament.
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Americans mostly now believe the climate is changing. They believe that humans are causing it, and they believe that it is a risk. But in surveys, Americans are not willing to pay higher energy prices to tackle the problem.
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Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, I want everyone to know that I'm here. We'll talk; we'll visit.
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You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.
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In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
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You can only go into science because you're interested in it.
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In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.
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Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
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A man´s taste is formed more by his culture, his profession, and the period in which he is young than by his race or politics.
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Oh you're a wrestler now? Remember I'm the black belt in ju-jitsu.
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I think it's harder for R&B to break in England because the radio and labels don't really know what to do with R&B music.
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I don't really know how it feels to hate on somebody else or just worry about what somebody else is doing.
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I have to pick myself up every day and say, 'The show must go on,' meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it.
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A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.
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I'm as old as I am, and I don't try to hide it. It's not a big deal.
