Alan Colmes Quotes
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When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
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It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'
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Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
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My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
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I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
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I am very strongly paternal. My paternal instincts need to be acted upon. My love needs a release. I love everyone. I don't express my love enough, but the love within me needs a platform as a parent.
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Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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I like to ride in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.
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There's something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.
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An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.
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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
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I tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don't make the final cut. See it as an opportunity, although it took me a while to enjoy that 'lost in the woods' feeling.
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If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.
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She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.
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Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.
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I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.
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I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.
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Nihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it remains bound.
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I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time.
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I don't want to ever say to somebody, 'You don't have to see it. It's not good.' I'm done with that. I'd love to just do things that I respect. That being said, I do have two children to put through school, so we'll see if I can put my money where my mouth is, but I would love to just work with people I respect.
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I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.
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Change is always something you have to go through.
