Alan Cumming Quotes
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.
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'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.
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Deep in every heart slumbers a dream, and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess.
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People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.
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On stage you’re free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you’d be arrested.
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Other than Green Day, we haven't had a lot of protest music over the past few decades.
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Be who you like as long as you mean it.
