Alan Cumming Quotes
It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I've always wanted to be Batman, but I don't naturally tend towards Batman. I tend towards Robin, but I did get to play Superman.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
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I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.
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Estque pati poenam quam meruisse minus.
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It is very important to highlight the young talent of India.
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My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
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The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.
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If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.
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It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.