Alan Cumming Quotes
I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.
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A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
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Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.
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In Tagalog, we call undocumented people 'TNT,' which means tago ng tago, which means 'hiding and hiding.' So that's literally what undocumented means in Tagalog. And that kind of tells you how Filipinos think of this issue, and really any culture, right?
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You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.
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I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
