Alan King Quotes
Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe's State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, 'That's who I want to be; that's what I want to be.'
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
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Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
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I can afford to say what I wish.
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My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.
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Up to his twenty-sixth year, the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.
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I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.
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White people, who for a long time live alone with Natives, get into the habit of saying what they mean, because they have no reason or opportunity for dissimulation, and when they meet again their conversation keeps the Native tone.
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Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?
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A good life is a main argument.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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He have his goodness now, God forbid I take it from him!
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It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.
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Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.
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There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.
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I'm not a hugely social person. Obviously there's a big part of the job that requires that as actors, but it's not the most comfortable for me. I'm a homebody. I don't go out. My life is work and family. There's not a lot in between. That's how I like it.
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Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe's State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, 'That's who I want to be; that's what I want to be.'
