Alan Colmes Quotes

My side, I am a liberal more than a Democrat.

Alan Colmes

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• A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Sleep

• When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Music
  • Find

• I was a teenage girl once. I was not an overweight teenage girl, but I had really bad acne when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was heart-rending, and people made fun of me. People whispered when I walked by in the hallways, and I was sure they were whispering about me. My adult perspective is maybe they weren't.

  

  Rae Carson
  • People
  • Heart
  • Bad

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Want
  • Health care
  • Cousin

• I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Family
  • Know
  • Violence

• I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Great
  • Sleep
  • Sunday

• I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Work
  • Television
  • Stand

• I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Irritating

• I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Today
  • Parents

• The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Failure
  • Cost

• On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before, you couldn't tell.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Love
  • Plan
  • Countries

• Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Children
  • Chance
  • Economy

• Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Me
  • Years
  • Doing

• I love Dior and Commes des Garcons, but I can't really afford them.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Really
  • Can
  • Afford

• I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she's interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn't need to add things.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • She
  • Interesting
  • Alive

• It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Acceptance
  • Inflation

• Normally, I would seek to compromise, but not on immigration policy.

  

  Mette Frederiksen
  • Compromise
  • Immigration Policy

• After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Never
  • Care
  • Old

• We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.

  

  Jesse Williams
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Education

• What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread use.

  

  Brian Behlendorf

• Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even to a small degree, it is only to the extent that he is willing to make himself known. A man will say: I am cold. Or else he will say nothing, and we will see him shivering. Either way, we will know that he is cold. But what of the man who says nothing and does not shiver? Where all is intractable, here all is hermetic and evasive, one can do no more than observe. But whether one can make sense of what he observes is another matter entirely

  

  Paul Auster
  • Men
  • Cold
  • Impossible

• My side, I am a liberal more than a Democrat.

  

  Alan Colmes