Alan Arkin Quotes
Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.
Quotes to Explore
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.
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The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
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So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.
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Reaching the summit of a mountain gives great satisfaction, but nothing for me has been more rewarding in life than the result of our climb on Everest, when we have devoted ourselves to the welfare of our Sherpa friends.
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Dualistic doctrines that regard mind and body as separate entities do not provide much enlightenment on the nature of the disembodied mental state or on how an immaterial mind and bodily events act on each other.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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The universe looks less like a big machine than a big thought.
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Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.
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Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.
