Alan Rosenberg Quotes
Aside from my family, I have two great loves in my life: acting and the fight for social justice.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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Passion in Ireland is denounced as evil and obscene. Women are the snares set for us by the Devil.
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Don’t turn decision making over to an army of consultants.
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If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better - that is the true reward.
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At the time when I was in college, Oscar Grant had just lost his life in Oakland, Calif. He was an unarmed young black male who had a record. And at the time when his death was making headlines, more people were talking about what he had done in his past than the fact that he unjustly lost his life.
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I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.
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Aside from my family, I have two great loves in my life: acting and the fight for social justice.
