Alan Huffman Quotes

Life feels more vivid in a conflict zone. It is clear what matters, and who you can count on, for what.

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• I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Impossible
  • Task

• Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Succeed

• Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Criticism
  • Sympathy
  • Universities

• My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • College

• Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Different
  • Christian

• I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Like
  • Secret
  • Wrong

• I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Believe
  • Woman
  • Murder

• I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.

  

  Natsuki Takaya
  • Inspiration
  • Desires
  • Doubts

• I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • World
  • Real
  • War

• In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Focus

• There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Free
  • Logic
  • Illusion

• Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Book
  • Religious

• If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Way
  • Interesting

• Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Story
  • Courtesy

• I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
  • School
  • Crazy

• My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Star
  • Young
  • Wanted

• At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a young man. The age that Jesus Christ died. The age that Scott Fitzgerald started to go downhill. That age may be a kind of crossroads in life. That was the age when I began my life as a runner, and it was my belated, but real, starting point as a novelist.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Life
  • Running
  • Jesus Christ

• I don't claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.

  

  Marie Osmond
  • Knowledge

• (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Car
  • Thought

• More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

  

  Amelie Nothomb

• The pro-immigration people are really having a fit saying that I don't care about the children.

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • People
  • Children
  • Immigration

• Life feels more vivid in a conflict zone. It is clear what matters, and who you can count on, for what.

  

  Alan Huffman
  • Life