Alan Colmes Quotes
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
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The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
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My favorite thing of all time is a New York City weekend when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.
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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
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Freedom is for fun.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
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I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.
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The fashion thing is something I do, and yes, it is definitely also becoming a part of myself and my personality. It also doesn't really feel like a job, either: it's a dream or a passion or something.
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Knowledge is the life of the mind.
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Death by evaporation. May the saltwater wind that gets shot out of a barreling wave blow me away like an old puffy dandelion into the sky.
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
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One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents.
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.
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I feel quite lucky to have the platforms I have on both television and radio.
