Alan Cumming Quotes
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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Ever since the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan has turned its back on Asia in general and China in particular: its pattern of aggression from 1895 onwards and the colonies that resulted were among the consequences.
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We are optimistic of achieving the target. We are already working with our partners and also reaching out to raise more resources to meet the target by 2006.
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Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.
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Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.
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You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.
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I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
