Alan King Quotes
My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.
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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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I have a couture body.
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
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I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.
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The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.
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If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.
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When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and the Washington Post and Salon and Slate, most of them have Ivy League educations.
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In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.
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My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.
