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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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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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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I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.
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I only write in blue ink.
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No matter what players say or people say, you want to be liked and appreciated, even if you've had a downfall.
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I apply to you to come and hear that you are in evil case; that what deserves your attention most is the last thing to gain it; that you know not good from evil, and are in short a hapless wretch; a fine way to apply! though unless the words of the Philosopher affect you thus, speaker and speech are alike dead. (120).
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There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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I feel quite lucky to have the platforms I have on both television and radio.
