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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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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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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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I'm 70-something, still kicking it, having a great time, showing up in Aspen to sign cookbooks. I just want to have a nice, big, long career.
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No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.
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The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently.
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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.
