Alan Cumming Quotes
It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.
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Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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Look round at the courses of the stars, as if thou wert going along with them; and constantly consider the changes of the elements into one another; for such thoughts purge away the filth of the terrene life.
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A country is an individual in the world that represents a group of people, so I decided we would name our band after a country, and Portugal happened to be the one that popped up.
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So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot.
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
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It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
