Alan Cumming Quotes
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
Eddie Murray -
Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
Barack Obama -
It's great fun to play with a really good band.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.
Yael Naim -
I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.
Landon Donovan -
The gimmicky thing I'm not very keen on.
Manolo Blahnik
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Madame de Stael -
Your letter firmed me up a lot. It certainly is a comfort to know that my work is respected by someone whom I respect and am as fond as you. It confirms my beliefe that life is notall nonsense and cruelty-the inversion of Victorian complacency-but has hard spots of sense and love bobbing about in it here and there.
E. M. Forster -
I know my fans look up to me and that's why I make my songs so personal; it's all about things I've experienced and things I like or hate. I write for myself and hope that my fans like what I have to say.
Avril Lavigne -
A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.
Laurel Lea -
Give the lady what she wants!
Marshall Field -
My sporting heroes were Ken Jones, Stanley Matthews, and Cliff Morgan.
Lynn Davies
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For as long as I can remember, my acting crush has been Meryl Streep.
Constance Zimmer -
I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.
Edward Blake -
In Judaism, the temple was the most holy site in the world. But if you extend that argument as a metaphor, and you say 'The world is a holy place,' and you're treating this holy place like a money-lending psycho, then Jesus says, 'This is hypocrisy!' and he'd point it out and flip it over.
Jeff Baena -
I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.
Joe Torre -
Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.
David Stern -
Unilateral disarmament by Britain is opposed to our country's best interests, could begin the unravelling of NATO and therefore jeopardise the stability of Europe.
James Callaghan
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I think the attractiveness of Buddhism is that it doesn't involve a belief in God. That appeals to a lot of people - intellectuals and well-educated people in particular.
Ninian Smart -
I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
Beau Bridges -
Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.
Ryszard Kapuscinski -
Oh dear,"cried Rhonda just then, for Mr. Benedict, awash in strong emotion, has gone to sleep.with a sudden loud snore he toppled forward into the attentive arms of Rhonda and Number Two, who eased him to the floor. "What's wrong with him?" Constance asked. "He has narcolepsy," said Kate. "He steals a lot?" "That's kleptomania," Sticky said. "Mr. Benedict sleeps a lot.
Trenton Lee Stewart -
find yourself a lover who will glue you to the floor
Jimmy Buffett -
I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.
Alan Cumming