Alan Cumming Quotes
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.
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It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
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By working together, we can make Arizona a place where everyone has an opportunity for a better life.
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Dhikr is the reason for the life of the heart and leaving it is the reason for its death.
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My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
