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.

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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.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Up
  • Fight

• I haven't actually studied acting at all.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Studied

• Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • Earth
  • Day
  • Worry

• Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

  

  Barry White
  • Strong
  • Families
  • Brothers

• Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Everything
  • Hidden

• If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Love
  • Love You
  • Shall

• Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Me
  • Body
  • Relaxation

• If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.

  

  Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
  • Egypt
  • Then
  • Unstable

• 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.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Experience
  • You
  • Impossible

• 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.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Stop
  • Election
  • Taxes

• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Competition
  • Hypocrisy

• I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Think
  • You
  • Artist

• There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Financial
  • Crisis
  • Banks

• 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.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Book
  • Beginning
  • Missing

• 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!

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Judgment
  • Comfortable
  • Skin

• The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Important
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• 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.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Wanted
  • Diamonds
  • Bites

• In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in the ear, and the child sleeps; the tones are companions of his dreams- they are the world in which he lives.

  

  Bettina Skrzypczak
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Child

• And yet as a coach, I know that being fixated on winning (or more likely, not losing) is counterproductive, especially when it causes you to lose control of your emotions. What’s more, obsessing about winning is a loser’s game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Game

• It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Share
  • Illusion
  • Injustice

• The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Collaboration

• Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • Universe
  • Winning