Alan Colmes Quotes
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We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
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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.
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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.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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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.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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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.
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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
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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.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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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.
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I was never really good in school.
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A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.
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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.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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.
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My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born.
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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.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness.
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Last year, we commissioned a new gas deposit, and our agreement with Gasport has worked.
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I'm a broadcaster who happens to be liberal, and not the other way around.
