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Alan Alda Quotes

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: January 28, 1936

Topics

Mountain American Almost Frontiers

Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting.

Work Sad I Am Reality Budget Doing

I think 'Speech & Debate' surprised people because it's a play about teenagers that took the teenagers very seriously. They are very real. People wanted to see if they identified with one of the kids, that loneliness, that yearning for something bigger. That feeling of being stuck, it's very adolescent, but those kinds of feelings linger on.

Loneliness People Think Speech Play

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Focus People Resources Single Idea

In order to get a FISA warrant, you need an affidavit signed by a career law enforcement officer who swears the information is true... And if it is wrong, that person is going to face consequences.

Law Law Enforcement Face Information

I remember the first time I smelled B.O. was at a cross-country meet. But it wasn't unpleasant, in a strange way. That's what you got when you worked hard.

Time Remember You Meet Strange Way

We don't talk about the timing of open matters, but I certainly agree with the FBI director that in every investigation, no matter whom it involves, we are thorough, we are fair, we are efficient, and we move through the facts and the evidence and come to the conclusions that are called upon.

Facts Timing Matter Talk Matters

Poetry is not mainstream, but then neither is serious fiction, really. But I don't think there's a lot to worry about in this particular 'problem'. Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant?

Jonathan Galassi

Art Poetry Think Worry Problem Why

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

Great People Treat Important Matters

With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.

Journey People Back Go Same Come

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.

Christopher Meloni

Live Hero Day Yourself You Movies

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

Peace Construction Solidarity Poor

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

Funny Time Dress Me Wedding Serious

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