Alan Colmes Quotes

I'm a broadcaster who happens to be liberal, and not the other way around.

Alan Colmes

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• My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.

  

  Yuna
  • Style
  • Woman
  • Comfort Zone

• When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Team
  • Play
  • Church

• I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Political
  • Kind

• It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Things
  • Secret
  • Name

• I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Mother
  • Hand
  • Now

• Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Great
  • Effort
  • Attitude

• Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Time
  • Journey

• It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • Great
  • Early

• The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • War
  • History
  • Sea

• You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Know
  • Everyone
  • Mythology

• And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Great
  • She
  • Beautiful

• I was never really good in school.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Good
  • School
  • Never

• Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career.

  

  LaToya London
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Career

• I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Responsibility
  • Moral
  • Wise

• My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Parents
  • Born
  • Los Angeles

• It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Culture
  • Rule
  • Modern

• Sed nihil dulcius est, bene quam munita tenereedita doctrina sapientum templa serena,despicere unde queas alios passimque videreerrare atque viam palantis quaerere vitae,certare ingenio, contendere nobilitate,noctes atque dies niti praestante laboread summas emergere opes rerumque potiri.

  

  Lucretius

• The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity, and humanity, let the blackguard Paine say what he will; it is resignation to God, it is goodness itself to man.

  

  John Adams
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • Christian

• I'm a big fan of the 'Fast' franchise. I remember when I met Neal Moritz early on, I joked if Justin Lin ever left the franchise, I would be the perfect guy to slip right in and take over, and no one would know the difference.

  

  James Wan
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Perfect

• Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Past
  • Experiences

• A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation lies in the amount of money its inhabitants can save and invest after providing themselves with all the necessaries and all the reasonable comforts of life.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Life
  • Money
  • Lies

• The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Problems
  • Created

• In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Humanity

• I'm a broadcaster who happens to be liberal, and not the other way around.

  

  Alan Colmes