Alan Davies Quotes
I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.
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If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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Happiness is very simple and minimal.
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Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main character, private detective Rad Bradley, to have. I also knew that the world was far larger than what I'd presented in book one.
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I really believe that if you want something bad enough, and you work so hard to get it, and you have it inside, then if you just never stop, it's gonna happen.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
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Power to the peaceful.
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I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.
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I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought.
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That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
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If we can spend over $3 trillion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, surely we can find the money to meet the long-term needs of our people.
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Men should come with instruction booklets.
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I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.
