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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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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No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.
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Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.
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The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.
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I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.
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Life isn't always easy and we are never guaranteed that things will always go smoothly…It progresses with an almost constant series of challenges, but these obstacles are just detours that we have to take in order to meet our ultimate goals. No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.
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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.
