Alan Colmes Quotes

Air America Radio was thinking of hiring me, but they discovered something in my past that didn't sit well with them: radio experience.

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• The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

  

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• Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.

  

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• A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.

  

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• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

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• Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

  

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• I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

  

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• Let's have some new cliches.

  

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• Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.

  

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• I've always found the rain very calming.

  

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• Sometimes when I'm on set, I keep eating, and people are like, 'You really eat that?' I'm like, 'Yes, I do.'

  

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• I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of characters, but growing up. You're in really adult situations at a young age, as far as being in charge of people.

  

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• I voted yes for ANWR, and I would support those in other places, environmentally sound.

  

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• Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless boobs who can't drive, take way too long to shop, and don't even have the most basic grasps on the new technology. As a staunch supporter of the principles of Darwinism, I think that advances in modern medicine are starting to overrule the survival of the fittest, and it's to our [youngers'] detriment.

  

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• There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.

  

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• People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America.

  

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• When you're a kid, you always think about your parents, and I still do. I try to lead with the same example that they set.

  

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• Air America Radio was thinking of hiring me, but they discovered something in my past that didn't sit well with them: radio experience.

  

  Alan Colmes
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • America