Alan Arkin Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
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I will raise a book to Brian Thomsen.
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We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
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Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.
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Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
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Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
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I was always amazed when people were kind to us.
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I’ve never acted my age and I never will. It’s just the way I’ve always been.
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If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?
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There is no mystery in humans creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret.
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I'm not a politician.
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I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a father who was larger than life - stronger, smarter, more handsome, and even holier than other men.
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I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.
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But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.
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Art is when things appear rounded.
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The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest. It may be wholeheartedness. You are so exhausted because all of the things you are doing are just busyness. There's a central core of wholeheartedness totally missing from what you're doing.
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No matter what you do or where you are, you're going to be missing out on something.
