Alan Cumming Quotes

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

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• I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.

  

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• The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

  

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• When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.

  

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• I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

  

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• I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.'

  

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• If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

  

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• In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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• Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.

  

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• I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

  

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• I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.

  

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• Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

  

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• So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.

  

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• I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

  

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• I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'

  

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• If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.

  

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• We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.

  

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• You know in the West they support realistic forces.

  

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• What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.

  

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• Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

  

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• Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.

  

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• Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries.

  

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• I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and it's all here.

  

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• Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

  

  Alan Cumming
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