Alan Cranston Quotes
I don't feel any need for redemption. I'm satisfied with what I did in the Senate. I don't look back. I look forward.
Quotes to Explore
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.
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We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
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I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have these great king crab legs.
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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.
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History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.
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My husband is always telling me I need to do less, do less, do less. But I feel like if I'm not being productive, I have a hard time relaxing and enjoying myself.
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Women inspire me. Women in the airports, around the country in different cities, destinations around the world, inspire me with the way they express their individuality. I love watching women and discovering all the ways each person uses a color, pattern, a style, even a lipstick color. I'm a people watcher.
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Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
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I learned what looked good on my petite frame, and to this day, I'm a great bargain shopper.
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Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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When I was a Senator from New York, I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance. But even thought I represented them and did all I could to make sure they continued to prosper, I called for closing the carried interest loophole and addressing skyrocketing CEO pay. I also was calling in '06, '07 for doing something about the mortgage crisis, because I saw every day from Wall Street literally to main streets across New York how a well-functioning financial system is essential.
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We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
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I don't feel any need for redemption. I'm satisfied with what I did in the Senate. I don't look back. I look forward.
