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Alan Colmes Quotes

Air America Radio was thinking of hiring me, but they discovered something in my past that didn't sit well with them: radio experience.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 24, 1950 - February 23, 2017

Topics

Experience Past Me Thinking America

There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.

Rock Out Along Songs Making Until

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

Child Way Never Engage Interest Had

Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it's facing adversity.

Adversity Champion Ahead Being Just

You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.

Fear You Ask Through Global Been

I do notice a lot of people who want to shock to get laughs. It's such a tricky thing; you don't want to make rules about it. There's nobody more hilarious than Dave Attell, and he'd break every rule you set up. But he's funny.

Funny People You Rules Nobody Want

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

Decisions Fall Lesson Rise My Own

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

Color Guitar Too Much Playing Been

Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

Morning Wake Up Story Think You

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Nobility Idleness Appendix

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.

Joshua Waitzkin

Work Hard Work Success Adversity

In my photography, I always lean towards the underprivileged because that's where I came from. When I went to the wars, I attempted to go and stand by those who were being trodden on. By that, I mean people like the Palestinians. When I go to India, I see really the poorest people, and I tend to be drawn to them.

People Stand Photography India Go

I think that from 15 to, like, 18, I went through a very rough time. Something basically everyone goes through in those years - not knowing what you're going to do.

Time Think Not Knowing You Knowing

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