Alan Cumming Quotes

With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

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• I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Parents
  • Crazy
  • Month

• Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • World
  • Child

• Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • House
  • Working
  • Office

• There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Digital

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Science
  • Education
  • Technology

• You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • You
  • Right Time

• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • May
  • Political

• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Never
  • Air

• After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Child
  • Interest
  • Labor

• The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
  • Most
  • Destructive

• There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Up
  • Men
  • Perfect

• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Life
  • Think
  • Successful

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learning
  • Road
  • English

• I'm an emotional person.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Person
  • Emotional

• Do not commit yourself to anybody or anything, for that is to be a slave, a slave to every man Above all, keep yourself free of commitments and obligations - they are the device of another to get you into his power

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Power
  • Free
  • Commitment

• Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Death
  • Lost

• A friend is, as it were, a second self.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Friend

• I have rage and anger issues. So I get mad about stuff in real life, and then I yell about it onstage, and luckily, something funny ends up coming out. What I'll do is tape-record it, and it will end up coming out even funnier. And I add more punch lines.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Idea
  • Secrets