Alan Casden Quotes
Ask anybody who has ever remodeled their house. There's always problems. They open up walls, they find this, they find that. There is always something. I'm in a business where you have to control those variables.
Quotes to Explore
-
My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
-
I think we know how to do Mars.
-
I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
-
I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
-
In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
-
It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
-
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
-
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
-
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
-
I'm just someone who marvels at God.
-
Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
-
I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
-
I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
-
I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
-
If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
-
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
-
How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
-
I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
-
I seldom look back.
-
I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.
-
I don't want my life to be about a house and a car.
-
My love for you is not plain But it does not add up I love you not Yes, I have never revealed it to anyone Nor will I ever do so You are no exception either Yes, I will keep my words to me But, I have no control over my eyes That might blab out And lead you to take My love is for you only Though I'm not to say so.
-
Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
-
Ask anybody who has ever remodeled their house. There's always problems. They open up walls, they find this, they find that. There is always something. I'm in a business where you have to control those variables.
