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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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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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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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.
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I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.
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I love 'South Pacific.' It's got beautiful music. But there have been so many, you know, renditions of this in high school or college productions.
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I have to say I have the most experience. I'm a veteran when it comes to that, [my brothers] they're still learning. They have lots of potential. They're like first-round picks right now in the game, they still have to develop.
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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.
