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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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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Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.
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But censorship by itself doesn’t work. It is, as Mao said, about the pen and the gun.
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In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.
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People from my father's generation didn't have the luxury to be unhappy in their job.
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If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.
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Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?
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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
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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.
